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OVERSEER: All right now.
Y'all fresh niggers.

2
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Y'all gonna be
in a cutting gang.

3
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Very simple.
I want you to
take your knife.

4
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Get in them cane.

5
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Make it sing.

6
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Take the cane out.

7
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Cut my tops.

8
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Clean the shucks off.

9
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Throw it on a pile
for the planting gang.

10
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Now, them cane
ain't gonna jump
up and bite you.

11
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Don't shy back.

12
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Rush here, boys! Rush here!

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MALE SLAVE: (SINGING)
<i>My Lord</i>

14
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MALES SLAVES:
<i>Sunshine</i>

15
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<i>My Lord</i>

16
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<i>Lord, Lord</i>

17
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<i>My ma</i>

18
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<i>She dead</i>

19
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<i>My pa</i>

20
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<i>He dead</i>

21
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<i>My Lord</i>

22
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<i>Sunshine</i>

23
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<i>My Lord</i>

24
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<i>Sunshine</i>

25
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<i>ls late</i>

26
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<i>In high</i>

27
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<i>In high</i>

28
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<i>In high</i>

29
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<i>My Lord</i>

30
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<i>Sunshine</i>

31
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<i>My Lord</i>

32
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<i>Lord, Lord</i>

33
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<i>My ma</i>

34
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<i>She dead</i>

35
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<i>My pa</i>

36
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<i>He dead</i>

37
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<i>My Lord</i>

38
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<i>Sunshine</i>

39
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<i>My Lord</i>

40
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<i>Yes, sir</i>

41
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(BLOWING OUT CANDLES)

42
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(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

43
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(CUP CLATTERS)

44
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(SLAVES SNORING)

45
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(SIGHING)

46
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(BREATHING HEAVILY)

47
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(GASPING)

48
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(SOBBING)

49
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(TUNING)

50
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(SOLOMON HUMMING)

51
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(PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE)

52
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(MUSIC ENDS)

53
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(CHUCKLING)

54
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(PLAYING OFF-KEY)

55
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All right, all right,
all right, all right.

56
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Into bed.

57
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Into bed. Thank you
for the music.

58
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Come on.
Ouch.

59
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Get in there.
Come on.

60
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Give me a kiss.

61
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I love you, Margaret.

62
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I love you, too.

63
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Sleep well.

64
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(BLOWING)
I'll take this.

65
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I don't want to
hear any more noise.

66
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(CHILDREN GIGGLING)

67
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(SIGHS) Three weeks
and two days.

68
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It is the custom.

69
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I wonder what you
will do without me.

70
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I won't stay idle.

71
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Darling, it's good money.

72
00:08:05,318 --> 00:08:08,570
If only I didn't have
to share your cooking
with other people.

73
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You don't.

74
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(GRUNTS)

75
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Be good for your mother.
Okay, Alonzo?

76
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Can I get a kiss, please?
Thank you.

77
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Travel safely.

78
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Stay safely.

79
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Ready?

80
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(DRIVER URGING HORSES)

81
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(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
(BELLS TOLLING)

82
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MR. MOON: Devil
call his name,
there he is now.

83
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Mr. Northup!

84
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I have two gentlemen
whose acquaintance
you should make.

85
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Misters Brown
and Hamilton.

86
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Sir.

87
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Mr. Northup,
these two gentlemen...

88
00:08:58,955 --> 00:09:01,373
were inquiring about
distinguished individuals...

89
00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:03,208
and I was just
this very moment...

90
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saying Solomon Northup
is an expert player
on the violin.

91
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He was indeed.

92
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Mr. Moon is being
overly gracious.

93
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Well, taking
into consideration

94
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his graciousness
and your modesty...

95
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may we trouble you
for a moment of your time
to converse, sir?

96
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Of course.

97
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Good day.

98
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SOLOMON: A circus?

99
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That is our
usual employee.

100
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The company currently
in the city of Washington.

101
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Circus is too
constricting a word...

102
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to describe
the talented and merry band
with which we travel.

103
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It is a spectacle
unlike most have
ever witnessed.

104
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Creatures from
the darkest Africa

105
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as yet unseen
by civilized man.

106
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Acrobats
from the Orient...

107
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who contort themselves
in the most
confounding manners.

108
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(LAUGHS) And I myself
in aide of Mr. Brown...

109
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an internationally
renowned practitioner

110
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in the art of
prestidigitation.

111
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We are on our way
thither to rejoin

112
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the company having left
for a short time...

113
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to make a small profit from
our own exhibitions.

114
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The reason for our inquiry
with Mr. Moon...

115
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Yes. We had just
a devil of a time

116
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in procuring music
for our entertainments.

117
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Men of true talents are
seemingly in short supply.

118
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Thank you, sir.

119
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If we could persuade you
to accompany us as
far as Washington...

120
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We could give you one dollar
for each day's services...

121
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and three dollars
for every night played
at our performances.

122
00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:08,941
In addition, we would
provide sufficient pay...

123
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for your return
here to Saratoga,
two weeks from today.

124
00:10:17,367 --> 00:10:19,618
Welcome to Washington,
Solomon.

125
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(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

126
00:10:25,625 --> 00:10:27,126
(ALL LAUGHING)

127
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Hamilton,
you know too much.

128
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Some say not enough.

129
00:10:31,548 --> 00:10:34,967
Solomon, 43 dollars.
All to you.

130
00:10:36,094 --> 00:10:38,053
That is far more
than my wages amount to.

131
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BROWN: It's been a most
profitable week, sir.

132
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Cheers.
Cheers.

133
00:10:41,391 --> 00:10:42,599
Cheers.

134
00:10:47,230 --> 00:10:48,730
Another.

135
00:10:50,275 --> 00:10:55,279
Gentlemen, your generosity
is extraordinary.

136
00:10:55,446 --> 00:10:57,489
And your talents
are undeniable.

137
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Mmm. To Solomon.

138
00:10:58,867 --> 00:10:59,992
Cheers.

139
00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:01,368
Cheers.

140
00:11:12,005 --> 00:11:13,255
(CHAINS RATTLING)

141
00:11:22,765 --> 00:11:24,600
(RATTLING CONTINUES)

142
00:11:41,868 --> 00:11:43,619
Ugh!
(GROANING)

143
00:11:45,038 --> 00:11:46,663
It's all right,
Solomon.

144
00:11:46,831 --> 00:11:47,956
There's no
shame in it.

145
00:11:48,124 --> 00:11:49,541
No shame at all.

146
00:11:59,719 --> 00:12:01,094
(GRUNTING)

147
00:12:11,397 --> 00:12:13,190
(WHISPERS) Hamilton,
we must hurry.
(SOLOMON GROANING)

148
00:12:14,275 --> 00:12:15,400
One too many libation.

149
00:12:15,485 --> 00:12:16,777
(SOLOMON COUGHS)
We're halfway there.

150
00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:18,237
(CHAINS RATTLING LOUDLY)

151
00:12:21,449 --> 00:12:22,824
(GRUNTING)

152
00:12:30,667 --> 00:12:31,917
(PANTING)

153
00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:35,045
SOLOMON: So sorry...

154
00:12:35,129 --> 00:12:36,213
(SHUSHING)

155
00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:38,131
We won't hear it. We won't.

156
00:12:38,299 --> 00:12:40,259
Let him sleep,
Hamilton.

157
00:12:40,343 --> 00:12:42,886
Mmm.
A good night's rest.

158
00:12:43,429 --> 00:12:45,138
And tomorrow...

159
00:12:46,224 --> 00:12:48,517
tomorrow you will feel
as well and refreshed

160
00:12:48,643 --> 00:12:50,894
as if the earth
were new again.

161
00:12:51,062 --> 00:12:53,814
(SCOFFS) Hamilton,
there's nothing more
we can do for him.

162
00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:56,942
Such is the pity.

163
00:12:57,026 --> 00:12:58,360
(BLOWING)

164
00:13:00,363 --> 00:13:01,530
(GASPING)

165
00:13:04,158 --> 00:13:05,492
(DOOR OPENS)

166
00:13:06,452 --> 00:13:09,329
Well, boy,
how do you feel now?

167
00:13:11,666 --> 00:13:15,585
My name... My name
is Solomon Northup.

168
00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:19,006
I'm a free man.
A resident of Saratoga,
New York.

169
00:13:19,173 --> 00:13:21,800
The residence of
my wife and children
who are equally free.

170
00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:23,844
And you have no
right whatsoever
to detain me.

171
00:13:24,012 --> 00:13:25,387
You're not any free man.

172
00:13:25,555 --> 00:13:26,847
And I promise you...

173
00:13:27,015 --> 00:13:29,182
I promise you
upon my liberation

174
00:13:29,309 --> 00:13:31,476
I will have satisfaction
for this wrong.

175
00:13:33,146 --> 00:13:34,604
Resolve this.

176
00:13:35,023 --> 00:13:36,565
Produce your papers.

177
00:13:44,490 --> 00:13:46,241
You're no free man.

178
00:13:46,909 --> 00:13:48,827
And you ain't from Saratoga.

179
00:13:49,370 --> 00:13:51,246
You're from Georgia.

180
00:13:54,751 --> 00:13:56,501
You ain't a free man.

181
00:13:58,338 --> 00:14:02,382
You're nothing but
a Georgia runaway.

182
00:14:04,469 --> 00:14:09,097
You're just
a runaway nigger...

183
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:11,516
from Georgia.

184
00:14:27,825 --> 00:14:29,326
(GRUNTS)
(GROANS)

185
00:14:29,994 --> 00:14:31,286
(PANTING)

186
00:14:34,791 --> 00:14:36,083
(GROANING)

187
00:14:42,799 --> 00:14:44,466
You're a slave!

188
00:14:44,967 --> 00:14:47,552
You're a Georgia slave!

189
00:14:47,637 --> 00:14:49,096
(SCREAMING)

190
00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:52,641
(PANTING)

191
00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:06,029
Are you a slave?

192
00:15:07,323 --> 00:15:08,490
No.

193
00:15:11,828 --> 00:15:12,994
(GROANING)

194
00:15:23,005 --> 00:15:24,256
(GRUNTING)

195
00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:26,550
(SOBBING IN PAIN)

196
00:15:34,016 --> 00:15:36,309
(GASPING)

197
00:15:52,368 --> 00:15:53,535
(DOOR CLOSES)
(LOCK CLICKS)

198
00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:56,121
(SOLOMON GROANING)

199
00:15:58,124 --> 00:16:00,041
(CHAINS RATTLING)

200
00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:08,049
SOLOMON: (SOBBING) Help.

201
00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:11,011
Help me.

202
00:16:12,388 --> 00:16:14,181
Help me!

203
00:16:14,849 --> 00:16:17,225
Somebody help me!

204
00:16:17,935 --> 00:16:20,061
Help!

205
00:16:21,856 --> 00:16:23,356
Help!

206
00:16:28,362 --> 00:16:29,696
(DOOR OPENS)

207
00:16:35,077 --> 00:16:37,871
That old thing of yours
is just rags and tatters.

208
00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:40,499
You need something
proper to wear.

209
00:16:43,586 --> 00:16:45,879
Go on, put it on.

210
00:17:05,233 --> 00:17:06,566
There.

211
00:17:09,904 --> 00:17:11,321
That's fine.

212
00:17:11,781 --> 00:17:13,698
That's fine.

213
00:17:15,952 --> 00:17:17,077
Got no gratitude?

214
00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:23,500
No. That's from my wife.

215
00:17:23,668 --> 00:17:25,210
Rags and tatters.

216
00:17:25,461 --> 00:17:27,879
Rags and tatters.

217
00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:31,258
(DOOR CLOSES)

218
00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:39,641
Go on, wash up.

219
00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,354
The boy, too.
Get him clean.

220
00:17:47,024 --> 00:17:48,400
Scrub now.

221
00:17:48,568 --> 00:17:50,735
Do you know when
my mama will come?

222
00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:52,237
Hush him up!

223
00:17:52,321 --> 00:17:53,321
Mama! Mama!

224
00:17:53,489 --> 00:17:54,489
Quiet.

225
00:17:54,782 --> 00:17:56,116
Quiet, please.
Mama!

226
00:17:56,284 --> 00:17:57,409
Hush him up!

227
00:17:57,577 --> 00:18:00,954
Your mother will come,
I swear she will.
But you must be silent.

228
00:18:01,539 --> 00:18:02,998
Be silent.

229
00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:11,548
We need
a sympathetic ear.

230
00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:12,632
(RANDALL HUMMING)

231
00:18:12,717 --> 00:18:14,467
An opportunity to
explain our situation.

232
00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:16,636
Who, in your estimation,
is that sympathetic ear?

233
00:18:16,804 --> 00:18:18,513
The two men
I journeyed with.

234
00:18:18,681 --> 00:18:20,557
I'm certain
they're making enquiries
at this very moment.

235
00:18:20,725 --> 00:18:22,058
I'd be just as
certain they're counting

236
00:18:22,184 --> 00:18:23,518
the money paid for
delivering you
to this place.

237
00:18:23,686 --> 00:18:26,730
They were not kidnappers,
they were artists.
Fellow performers.

238
00:18:26,897 --> 00:18:28,356
You know that?

239
00:18:28,524 --> 00:18:30,525
You know for certain
who they were?

240
00:18:32,194 --> 00:18:36,364
The reality to come
is us being
transported southward.

241
00:18:36,532 --> 00:18:38,617
New Orleans,
if I was to venture.

242
00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:41,745
After we arrive,
we'll be put to market.

243
00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:43,538
And beyond that...

244
00:18:44,415 --> 00:18:46,875
Well, I suppose
once in a slave state,
there's only one outcome.

245
00:18:47,043 --> 00:18:47,709
No.

246
00:18:47,877 --> 00:18:49,711
I don't say that
to give you
empty agitation, John.

247
00:18:49,879 --> 00:18:51,630
For y'all,
there ain't
nothing but that.

248
00:18:51,797 --> 00:18:53,256
But John wasn't
kidnapped.

249
00:18:53,424 --> 00:18:55,842
John's just
being held as debt,
that's all.

250
00:18:56,010 --> 00:18:57,927
Master pay his debt
and John be redeemed.

251
00:18:58,095 --> 00:18:59,554
Boy, our masters
will not come for us.

252
00:18:59,722 --> 00:19:01,723
John is sorry for y'all,
but that's how it be.

253
00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:03,725
Where you're going,
you're going without John.

254
00:19:05,770 --> 00:19:07,103
RANDALL: Mama!
Randall!

255
00:19:08,606 --> 00:19:09,856
Mama!

256
00:19:11,609 --> 00:19:13,401
Are you all right?

257
00:19:14,028 --> 00:19:15,445
Are you all right?

258
00:19:17,281 --> 00:19:18,698
Thank you, God.

259
00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:22,410
(DOOR OPENS)
Come on. Get up.

260
00:19:22,745 --> 00:19:24,287
I said, get up!
ELIZA: No, don't...

261
00:19:24,455 --> 00:19:26,373
I don't want to
hear you talk!
Get in the yard.

262
00:19:26,540 --> 00:19:27,582
Not my children!

263
00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:31,086
Ain't no need for all that.
Just taking a little trip,
that's all.

264
00:19:31,754 --> 00:19:33,338
Don't want to
frighten the children

265
00:19:33,464 --> 00:19:35,090
over a little
boat ride, do you?

266
00:19:35,257 --> 00:19:36,925
John's master
gonna pay his debt.

267
00:19:37,093 --> 00:19:38,093
Line up!

268
00:19:38,219 --> 00:19:39,219
His master gonna
pay his debt!

269
00:19:39,470 --> 00:19:41,096
(JOHN GROANING)

270
00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:47,936
I don't want to hear a word
out of none of you!

271
00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:50,271
Not a one.

272
00:20:03,411 --> 00:20:04,869
All right, come on.

273
00:20:06,414 --> 00:20:08,289
Move.
Come on.

274
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,376
Come on, child.
Come on.

275
00:20:11,544 --> 00:20:13,044
Follow your mama.

276
00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:14,212
Come on, boy.

277
00:20:14,296 --> 00:20:15,296
RADBURN: Up these stairs.

278
00:20:15,381 --> 00:20:17,632
BURCH: Get down out
of that wagon. Come on.

279
00:20:18,259 --> 00:20:19,634
Come on. Move it!

280
00:20:20,136 --> 00:20:21,469
Let's go!

281
00:20:21,637 --> 00:20:22,971
Up, up,
up the stairs.

282
00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:25,765
Come on, let's go.

283
00:20:30,271 --> 00:20:31,771
Come on, move it!

284
00:20:32,064 --> 00:20:33,690
All right, come on.

285
00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:37,736
RADBURN: Hey, you.
Get up.

286
00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:39,821
Sit down, right there.

287
00:20:40,114 --> 00:20:41,531
(BURCH LAUGHING)

288
00:20:42,324 --> 00:20:43,158
Come on.

289
00:20:44,910 --> 00:20:46,578
Right there. Just sit down.

290
00:21:22,865 --> 00:21:25,074
Cheer up and
don't be so cast down.

291
00:21:30,539 --> 00:21:31,748
(DOOR SLAMS)

292
00:21:35,127 --> 00:21:39,422
If you want to survive,
do and say as
little as possible.

293
00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:45,136
Tell no one who you really
are and tell no one
you can read and write.

294
00:21:47,223 --> 00:21:50,183
Unless you want to
be a dead nigger.

295
00:21:50,267 --> 00:21:51,684
(DOOR OPENS)

296
00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,325
MAN: Now keep
your mouth shut.

297
00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:16,918
I say we fight.

298
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,420
The crew is fairly small.

299
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:22,465
Were it well planned,
I believe they
could be strong-armed.

300
00:22:22,633 --> 00:22:24,509
Three can't go
against the whole crew.

301
00:22:25,636 --> 00:22:27,637
The rest here
are niggers.

302
00:22:27,972 --> 00:22:29,347
Born and bred slaves.

303
00:22:29,515 --> 00:22:31,766
Niggers ain't got
no stomach for a fight.

304
00:22:31,934 --> 00:22:33,268
Not a damn one.

305
00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:37,230
AII's I know,
if we get where
we're traveling...

306
00:22:37,648 --> 00:22:39,065
we'll wish
we'd died trying.

307
00:22:39,233 --> 00:22:41,693
Survival's not
about certain death,

308
00:22:41,819 --> 00:22:44,320
it's about
keeping your head down.

309
00:22:47,283 --> 00:22:50,118
Days ago,
I was with my family...

310
00:22:51,662 --> 00:22:53,454
in my home.

311
00:22:54,999 --> 00:22:57,333
Now you tell me
all is lost.

312
00:22:59,461 --> 00:23:02,672
"Tell no one who I am."
That's the way to survive?

313
00:23:05,926 --> 00:23:07,969
Well, I don't
want to survive.

314
00:23:09,513 --> 00:23:12,640
I want to live.

315
00:24:11,533 --> 00:24:12,867
(LAUGHS)

316
00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:15,870
(STABS)

317
00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:23,419
(SCREAMING)

318
00:24:41,397 --> 00:24:43,064
Better off.

319
00:24:44,024 --> 00:24:45,566
Better than us.

320
00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:03,835
I don't see him.

321
00:25:04,003 --> 00:25:04,711
Clemens!

322
00:25:05,170 --> 00:25:06,713
Clemens Ray!
Master.

323
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,089
Clemens!
Master Ray, sir!

324
00:25:08,257 --> 00:25:09,507
Master Ray!

325
00:25:09,675 --> 00:25:10,758
JONUS: Who's in charge here?

326
00:25:10,926 --> 00:25:11,926
I'm the captain!

327
00:25:12,094 --> 00:25:13,261
I'm Mr. Jonus Ray.

328
00:25:13,429 --> 00:25:15,013
My solicitor has
documentation...

329
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:17,932
verifying the negro
known as Clemens Ray
is my property.

330
00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:20,435
I know nothing of
this arrangement.

331
00:25:20,602 --> 00:25:22,353
JONUS: You are ordered to
return that property

332
00:25:22,479 --> 00:25:24,230
immediately or be
charged with thievery.

333
00:25:25,441 --> 00:25:26,691
Free him!

334
00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:30,737
Master.

335
00:25:30,904 --> 00:25:32,697
Master Ray, sir.

336
00:25:34,116 --> 00:25:35,074
Clemens!

337
00:25:35,242 --> 00:25:36,409
Clemens!
CAPTAIN: Get him back!

338
00:25:36,577 --> 00:25:37,952
Clemens!

339
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:39,620
Clemens!

340
00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:41,372
Clemens!

341
00:26:11,403 --> 00:26:13,321
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

342
00:26:46,063 --> 00:26:47,355
(SINGING)

343
00:26:47,689 --> 00:26:49,023
Mr. Parker.

344
00:26:49,108 --> 00:26:52,401
Ah, Mr. Northup.
Mrs. Northup.

345
00:26:52,653 --> 00:26:54,695
Solomon,
could I interest you
in a new cravat?

346
00:26:54,863 --> 00:26:56,030
Pure silk,
by way of the French.

347
00:26:56,198 --> 00:26:58,866
We're in need of
a fresh carryall
for my Mrs.'s travels.

348
00:26:59,034 --> 00:26:59,867
Nothing more.

349
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,702
The year has
passed already.

350
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,037
Off to work at
Sandy Hill again?

351
00:27:03,205 --> 00:27:04,038
I am.

352
00:27:04,206 --> 00:27:05,540
I have just the thing.

353
00:27:05,707 --> 00:27:07,375
Something to
suit your style...

354
00:27:07,543 --> 00:27:10,002
and yet sturdy enough
for the 40-mile round trip.

355
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:11,170
It's beautiful.

356
00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:12,255
At what price?

357
00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:13,339
We will take it.

358
00:27:13,507 --> 00:27:16,634
Children,
come see what you father
has just purchased for me.

359
00:27:16,802 --> 00:27:18,302
MR. PARKER: One moment, sir,
and you'll be assisted.

360
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:20,179
Mr. Parker.
Sir?

361
00:27:20,347 --> 00:27:21,556
If we could
discuss the price.

362
00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:23,349
Oh, forgive me, Solomon.
Forgive me, Mrs. Northup.

363
00:27:23,517 --> 00:27:25,560
A customer waits.
Welcome, sir.

364
00:27:25,727 --> 00:27:27,562
SOLOMON: Shop well, sir,
but mind your wallet.

365
00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:29,480
MR. PARKER: Pay no attention
to this gentleman's
nonsense.

366
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:30,731
Jasper!

367
00:27:32,234 --> 00:27:34,026
My regrets for
the intrusion, sir.

368
00:27:34,403 --> 00:27:36,070
SOLOMON: No intrusion.

369
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:41,367
Good day, sir.

370
00:27:41,869 --> 00:27:43,035
MR. PARKER: Good day.

371
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:44,912
Jasper, out.

372
00:27:53,088 --> 00:27:55,339
Very good. Very good.

373
00:27:55,716 --> 00:27:58,259
Let's see, here. Eliza!

374
00:27:59,595 --> 00:28:01,888
Stand up when you
hear your name. Eliza.

375
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:03,598
Lethe!

376
00:28:07,019 --> 00:28:07,685
John.

377
00:28:09,438 --> 00:28:10,688
Oren.

378
00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:13,107
Platt.

379
00:28:16,028 --> 00:28:17,111
Platt.

380
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:21,741
(SIGHS) Stand up.

381
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:25,119
You fit the
description given.

382
00:28:25,287 --> 00:28:26,621
Why didn't you
answer when called?

383
00:28:26,788 --> 00:28:28,039
My name is not Platt.

384
00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:29,040
My name...

385
00:28:31,376 --> 00:28:33,085
Your name is Platt.

386
00:28:35,297 --> 00:28:37,465
Captain, get these niggers
to my cart.

387
00:28:37,966 --> 00:28:39,884
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

388
00:28:50,145 --> 00:28:51,312
Mmm.

389
00:28:56,985 --> 00:28:58,152
(CHUCKLES)

390
00:28:59,613 --> 00:29:00,821
Move.

391
00:29:04,493 --> 00:29:06,077
FREEMAN: I believe I have
something very much

392
00:29:06,203 --> 00:29:07,787
to your liking
in the back room.

393
00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:09,664
Follow me, please.

394
00:29:09,831 --> 00:29:12,667
Yes. Now, inspect them
at your leisure...

395
00:29:12,834 --> 00:29:17,672
but I ask you to
pay particular regard
to young Ezra here.

396
00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:19,090
Incredibly sound limbs.

397
00:29:19,258 --> 00:29:21,342
I have never seen anything
quite like him.

398
00:29:21,510 --> 00:29:24,345
And this marvelous creature.
Can you believe it? Mmm?

399
00:29:24,513 --> 00:29:26,180
She'll make
a fine lady's maid.

400
00:29:26,348 --> 00:29:27,515
Madam? (CHUCKLES)

401
00:29:27,849 --> 00:29:29,517
So, inspect at your leisure.

402
00:29:29,685 --> 00:29:31,978
Take your time.
Help yourself to refreshments.

403
00:29:32,145 --> 00:29:35,147
Gentlemen, what catches
your fancy here? Hmm?

404
00:29:35,649 --> 00:29:36,649
This boy? Yes?

405
00:29:36,817 --> 00:29:38,985
Open your mouth.
Open wider.

406
00:29:39,152 --> 00:29:41,529
Look in there.
Never been sick
a day in his life.

407
00:29:41,697 --> 00:29:43,197
And I call
particular attention
to Martha.

408
00:29:43,365 --> 00:29:45,825
She is
an excellent pastry cook.

409
00:29:45,993 --> 00:29:47,702
Ah, Mr. Ford.

410
00:29:48,161 --> 00:29:50,454
Splendid seeing you, sir.
What catches your fancy?

411
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:52,665
This lad? He's very brawny.

412
00:29:52,833 --> 00:29:55,584
How much for
the ones Platt and Eliza?

413
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:57,211
Ah, yes.

414
00:29:57,629 --> 00:29:59,797
A thousand for Platt.
Uh... Oh.

415
00:29:59,881 --> 00:30:02,675
This is a nigger of
considerable talent,
I assure you.

416
00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:04,552
700 for Eliza.

417
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,387
My fairest price.

418
00:30:06,722 --> 00:30:07,888
Mmm.

419
00:30:08,724 --> 00:30:09,890
You will accept a note?

420
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:12,643
Please, sir.
Do not divide my family.

421
00:30:12,811 --> 00:30:14,061
Do not take me
unless you
take my children.

422
00:30:14,229 --> 00:30:15,229
Eliza! Quiet!

423
00:30:15,397 --> 00:30:17,106
You will have
the most faithful slave
in me.

424
00:30:17,274 --> 00:30:18,607
The most faithful slave
that has ever lived.

425
00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:19,900
But I beg that you
do not separate us.

426
00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:21,068
Your price
for the boy?

427
00:30:21,236 --> 00:30:22,570
Eliza! Stop it!

428
00:30:22,738 --> 00:30:23,904
I will give you
something to cry about.

429
00:30:24,072 --> 00:30:26,240
Randall, come forward.
Come, come, come.

430
00:30:26,408 --> 00:30:28,617
Now, do you see
how fit this boy is?

431
00:30:28,785 --> 00:30:30,036
Like ripe fruit.

432
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:33,080
May I take your
stick a moment?
Observe this.

433
00:30:33,248 --> 00:30:35,249
Randall, jump, jump, jump.
Run, run, run.

434
00:30:35,417 --> 00:30:37,585
Very good! Higher.

435
00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:38,878
Now, you see this.

436
00:30:39,046 --> 00:30:42,631
It's very likely
he will grow
into a fine beast.

437
00:30:43,884 --> 00:30:45,593
600 for the boy.

438
00:30:45,761 --> 00:30:47,261
Fair and final.

439
00:30:47,888 --> 00:30:49,096
Done.

440
00:30:49,264 --> 00:30:51,599
Superb. A moment, please.

441
00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:53,059
Mr. Ford.

442
00:30:53,268 --> 00:30:54,435
Please.
Eliza!

443
00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,354
How much
for the little girl?

444
00:30:56,438 --> 00:30:57,521
Ah...

445
00:30:57,939 --> 00:30:59,106
You have no use for her.

446
00:30:59,274 --> 00:31:00,941
One so young will
bring you no profit.

447
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,943
No, no, no.
I cannot sell the girl.

448
00:31:03,111 --> 00:31:06,739
No, there's heaps
and piles of money
to be made from her.

449
00:31:06,907 --> 00:31:09,200
She's a beauty.
One of the regular bloods.

450
00:31:09,368 --> 00:31:12,119
None of your thick-lipped,
bullet-heated, cotton-picking
niggers, here.

451
00:31:12,287 --> 00:31:14,955
Her child, man.

452
00:31:15,374 --> 00:31:16,123
Please.

453
00:31:16,291 --> 00:31:18,209
For God's sake,
are you not sentimental
in the least?

454
00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:21,128
My sentimentality extends
the length of a coin.

455
00:31:21,296 --> 00:31:22,797
God, please.

456
00:31:23,340 --> 00:31:26,717
Now do you take
this lot, Mr. Ford,
or do you pass on them?

457
00:31:26,885 --> 00:31:30,471
Please, please.
Please.

458
00:31:30,639 --> 00:31:32,181
I will take
the ones Platt and Eliza.

459
00:31:32,349 --> 00:31:33,349
Sold, Eliza and Platt.

460
00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:34,642
I will not go
without my children!

461
00:31:34,768 --> 00:31:35,851
Goddamn
sniveling wench!

462
00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:37,144
You will not
take them from me!

463
00:31:37,312 --> 00:31:40,022
God damn you!
Get her out of here, Cape!
(CHILDREN SCREAMING)

464
00:31:40,190 --> 00:31:41,899
Please! No! No!

465
00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:43,692
Get her out of here,
god damn it!

466
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:46,821
Platt, get your fiddle.
Play, play, play something.

467
00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:50,074
I will give you
something to cry about,
you goddamned witch!

468
00:31:50,242 --> 00:31:52,410
Get her out of here, Cape!
Out, now!

469
00:31:52,661 --> 00:31:56,038
(PLAYING LIVELY TUNE)
CHILDREN: Mama! Mama! Mama!

470
00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,958
Yes.

471
00:31:59,126 --> 00:32:01,836
Mr. Ford, a pleasure.

472
00:32:02,087 --> 00:32:03,754
(CHILDREN CONTINUE SCREAMING)

473
00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:20,688
Did you bring
all those niggers?

474
00:32:20,856 --> 00:32:23,107
Two of them?
You got two?

475
00:32:23,525 --> 00:32:24,817
FORD: Mr. Chapin.
(SOBBING)

476
00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:27,903
MISTRESS FORD:
This one's crying.
Why is this one crying?

477
00:32:28,071 --> 00:32:29,697
FORD: Separated
from her children.

478
00:32:29,865 --> 00:32:31,282
Oh, dear.
It couldn't be helped.

479
00:32:31,450 --> 00:32:32,700
Poor, poor woman.

480
00:32:32,868 --> 00:32:34,118
Mr. Chapin.
Yes, sir.

481
00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:35,744
Tomorrow,
you have to
take these two

482
00:32:35,871 --> 00:32:37,371
up to the mill and
start them working.

483
00:32:37,539 --> 00:32:38,747
For now,
make them adequate.

484
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:40,708
Fix them a meal
and have them
rest themselves.

485
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:42,042
Yes, sir.

486
00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:44,170
Come on, now.

487
00:32:44,713 --> 00:32:46,881
Come on! Don't dawdle!

488
00:32:47,174 --> 00:32:49,800
Something to eat,
and some rest.

489
00:32:49,968 --> 00:32:51,343
Your children will
soon be forgotten.

490
00:33:18,872 --> 00:33:20,998
For all of you raw niggers
that don't know...

491
00:33:21,166 --> 00:33:25,544
my name is John Tibeats,
William Ford's
chief carpenter.

492
00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:29,089
You will refer
to me as "Master."

493
00:33:29,257 --> 00:33:32,968
Mr. Chapin is the overseer
on this plantation.

494
00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:37,681
You, too, will refer
to him as "Master."

495
00:33:38,808 --> 00:33:40,726
So, clap your hands.

496
00:33:44,272 --> 00:33:46,982
Like this. Come on.

497
00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:50,110
Come on, now.
Clap your hands.

498
00:33:54,199 --> 00:33:56,534
(SINGING) Nigger run
<i>Nigger flew</i>

499
00:33:56,701 --> 00:33:59,078
<i>Nigger tore his shirt in two</i>

500
00:33:59,246 --> 00:34:01,580
<i>Run, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

501
00:34:01,748 --> 00:34:03,791
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

502
00:34:08,338 --> 00:34:10,214
TIBEATS: That's right.
<i>Like you mean it.</i>

503
00:34:11,258 --> 00:34:13,425
(SINGING) Nigger run
<i>Run so fast</i>

504
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:15,928
<i>Stove his head</i>
<i>in a hornet's nest</i>

505
00:34:16,096 --> 00:34:18,055
<i>Run, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

506
00:34:18,223 --> 00:34:21,225
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

507
00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:24,311
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

508
00:34:24,479 --> 00:34:26,647
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

509
00:34:28,650 --> 00:34:30,651
<i>Some folk say</i>
<i>a nigger don't steal</i>

510
00:34:30,819 --> 00:34:32,987
<i>I caught three</i>
<i>in my corn field</i>

511
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:35,322
<i>One has a bushel</i>
<i>And one has a peck</i>

512
00:34:35,490 --> 00:34:37,658
<i>One has a rope</i>
<i>it was hung around his neck</i>

513
00:34:37,826 --> 00:34:40,244
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

514
00:34:40,412 --> 00:34:42,663
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

515
00:34:42,831 --> 00:34:44,999
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

516
00:34:45,166 --> 00:34:47,835
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

517
00:34:48,003 --> 00:34:50,337
<i>Hey, Mr. Pattyroller</i>
<i>Don't catch me</i>

518
00:34:50,505 --> 00:34:52,840
<i>Catch that nigger</i>
<i>behind that tree</i>

519
00:34:53,008 --> 00:34:55,342
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

520
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,720
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

521
00:34:57,887 --> 00:35:00,014
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

522
00:35:00,181 --> 00:35:02,349
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

523
00:35:02,517 --> 00:35:04,685
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>The pattyroller will get you</i>

524
00:35:04,853 --> 00:35:06,854
<i>Run, nigger, run</i>
<i>Well, you better get away</i>

525
00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:10,149
"'I am the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac...

526
00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:12,610
"'and the God of Jacob.'

527
00:35:12,861 --> 00:35:13,944
<i>(RUN NIGGER RUN</i>
CONTINUES PLAYING)

528
00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:15,529
"And when
the multitude heard this,

529
00:35:15,697 --> 00:35:18,365
"they were astonished
at his doctrine.

530
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,161
"And then one of them,
which was a lawyer...

531
00:35:22,329 --> 00:35:25,539
"asked him a question,
tempting him."

532
00:35:47,729 --> 00:35:49,063
(MEN WHOOPING)

533
00:35:55,820 --> 00:35:57,237
(PLAYING RHYTHMIC TUNE)

534
00:36:01,242 --> 00:36:03,160
(WHOOPING CONTINUES)

535
00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:23,764
SOLOMON: The creek is
<i>plenty deep enough to sail.</i>

536
00:36:24,391 --> 00:36:26,475
Even with a boat
full of load.

537
00:36:26,643 --> 00:36:27,726
The distance
from the work area

538
00:36:27,852 --> 00:36:28,936
to the point on
the latter bayou...

539
00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:30,813
is several miles by water
fewer than land.

540
00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:32,523
It occurs to me that
the expense of transportation

541
00:36:32,649 --> 00:36:34,233
would be
materially diminished...

542
00:36:34,401 --> 00:36:35,442
"Materially diminished"?

543
00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:37,569
...If we use
the waterway.

544
00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:40,489
Are you an engineer,
or a nigger?

545
00:36:42,784 --> 00:36:45,285
Are you an engineer,
or a nigger?

546
00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:47,621
Let the man
say his piece.

547
00:36:47,789 --> 00:36:51,458
It's a scheme.
Plenty of engineers
have schemed similarly.

548
00:36:51,626 --> 00:36:54,169
The passes
are too tight.

549
00:36:54,629 --> 00:36:57,631
I reckon them
at more than 12 feet
at their most narrow.

550
00:36:57,799 --> 00:36:59,299
Wide enough for
a tub to traverse

551
00:36:59,426 --> 00:37:00,843
if a team of niggers
cleared it out.

552
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:03,762
And you know what
of transport
and terraforming?

553
00:37:03,930 --> 00:37:05,639
I labored repairing
the Champlain canal...

554
00:37:05,807 --> 00:37:09,143
on the section over which
William van Nortwick
was superintendent.

555
00:37:09,310 --> 00:37:12,187
With my earnings,
I hired several efficient
hands to assist me...

556
00:37:12,355 --> 00:37:13,647
and entered into
contracts for

557
00:37:13,773 --> 00:37:15,065
the transportation of
large rafts of timber...

558
00:37:15,233 --> 00:37:17,693
from Lake Champlain
to Troy.

559
00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:23,490
Well, I'll admit
to being impressed
even if you won't.

560
00:37:24,534 --> 00:37:26,577
Collect a team.
See what good
you can do.

561
00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:33,792
(SLAVES SINGING)

562
00:37:35,670 --> 00:37:36,920
You good? Clear it out!

563
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:38,297
Two, three...

564
00:37:38,381 --> 00:37:39,590
(BOTH GRUNTING)

565
00:37:41,509 --> 00:37:44,344
SLAVES: (SINGING)
<i>Too late for me</i>

566
00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:47,556
<i>I live or die</i>

567
00:37:47,724 --> 00:37:50,851
<i>Lay down and cry</i>

568
00:37:51,019 --> 00:37:54,104
<i>Hey, boy</i>
<i>I'm tired</i>

569
00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,357
<i>My lord</i>
<i>Sometimes</i>

570
00:37:57,525 --> 00:38:00,778
<i>I'm strong</i>
<i>Yes, sir</i>

571
00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:04,323
<i>I'm tall</i>
<i>Yes, sir</i>

572
00:38:05,074 --> 00:38:06,742
(APPLAUDING)

573
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:12,289
Platt, you are a marvel.

574
00:38:13,333 --> 00:38:14,875
(GRUNTING)

575
00:38:19,964 --> 00:38:21,673
What took you so long?
(CHUCKLES)

576
00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:24,301
Thank you, Master Ford.

577
00:38:25,553 --> 00:38:27,054
(ALL CONGRATULATING)

578
00:38:31,059 --> 00:38:32,226
(WHOOPING)

579
00:38:41,861 --> 00:38:43,195
FORD: Platt.

580
00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:55,958
(SIGHS)

581
00:39:02,257 --> 00:39:04,633
My great thanks,
Master Ford.

582
00:39:04,801 --> 00:39:06,885
No, my thanks to you.

583
00:39:07,053 --> 00:39:09,346
And it is the least of it.

584
00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:12,766
I hope it brings us both
much joy over the years.

585
00:39:32,996 --> 00:39:34,246
(STRUMMING)

586
00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:40,627
(SOBBING)

587
00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:44,631
God!

588
00:39:49,220 --> 00:39:50,637
Eliza.

589
00:39:55,727 --> 00:39:56,977
Eliza.

590
00:39:57,729 --> 00:39:58,729
Stop!

591
00:39:59,272 --> 00:40:01,148
Stop your wailing!

592
00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:05,027
If you let
yourself be overcome

593
00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:06,612
by sorrow,
you will drown in it.

594
00:40:06,779 --> 00:40:08,488
Have you stopped crying
for your children?

595
00:40:10,325 --> 00:40:13,827
You make no sounds,
but will you ever let them
go in your heart?

596
00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,000
They are as my flesh.

597
00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:22,169
Then who is distressed?

598
00:40:22,921 --> 00:40:25,172
Do I upset the master
and the mistress?

599
00:40:25,340 --> 00:40:27,674
Do you care less about my loss
than their well-being?

600
00:40:27,842 --> 00:40:29,176
Master Ford is a decent man.

601
00:40:29,344 --> 00:40:30,469
He is a slaver!

602
00:40:30,637 --> 00:40:31,511
Under the circumstances.

603
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,472
Under the circumstances,
he is a slaver.

604
00:40:33,806 --> 00:40:35,682
But you truckle
at his boot.

605
00:40:35,850 --> 00:40:37,476
You luxuriate in his favor.

606
00:40:37,644 --> 00:40:39,353
I survive!

607
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,563
I will not
fall into despair!

608
00:40:41,731 --> 00:40:43,690
I will offer up my talents
to Master Ford!

609
00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:46,652
I will keep myself hearty
until freedom is opportune!

610
00:40:46,819 --> 00:40:48,862
Ford is your opportunity?

611
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:52,407
You think he does not know
that you are more
than you suggest?

612
00:40:52,575 --> 00:40:54,242
But he does nothing for you.

613
00:40:54,410 --> 00:40:55,577
Nothing.

614
00:40:56,204 --> 00:40:59,498
You are no better
than prized livestock.

615
00:41:00,041 --> 00:41:01,416
Call for him. Call!

616
00:41:01,584 --> 00:41:03,710
Tell him of your
previous circumstances,

617
00:41:03,878 --> 00:41:06,046
and see what it
earns you, Solomon.

618
00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:10,384
So, you've settled into
your role as Platt, then?

619
00:41:11,302 --> 00:41:12,302
(DISHES CLATTERING)

620
00:41:12,387 --> 00:41:15,555
My back is
thick with scars...

621
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,058
for protesting my freedom.

622
00:41:18,226 --> 00:41:19,643
Do not accuse me.

623
00:41:20,478 --> 00:41:24,064
I accuse you of nothing.
I cannot accuse.

624
00:41:24,232 --> 00:41:27,150
I have done
dishonorable things
to survive...

625
00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:30,320
and for all of them,
I have ended up here.

626
00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:33,865
No better than
if I stood up for myself.

627
00:41:34,492 --> 00:41:36,743
God, forgive me.

628
00:41:36,911 --> 00:41:39,705
Solomon, let me weep
for my children!

629
00:41:41,457 --> 00:41:42,916
(SOBBING)

630
00:41:50,091 --> 00:41:52,175
FORD: "Whosoever,
<i>therefore, shall humble</i>

631
00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:54,428
<i>"himself as</i>
<i>this little child...</i>

632
00:41:54,929 --> 00:41:58,765
"the same is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven.
(ELIZA WAILING)

633
00:41:58,933 --> 00:42:03,854
"And who so shall receive
one such little child
in my name...

634
00:42:04,022 --> 00:42:05,856
I cannot have that
kind of depression about.

635
00:42:06,024 --> 00:42:08,191
"But who so shall offend
one of these little ones...

636
00:42:08,359 --> 00:42:11,194
"it were better for him
that a millstone were
hanged about his neck...

637
00:42:11,279 --> 00:42:12,446
(SOBBING)

638
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:16,116
"and he were drowned
in the depth of the sea."

639
00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:18,201
Amen.

640
00:42:18,745 --> 00:42:19,911
ALL: Amen.

641
00:42:32,717 --> 00:42:34,801
Make them boards flush.

642
00:42:35,219 --> 00:42:36,136
They are, sir.

643
00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:38,305
No, they is no such thing.

644
00:42:39,807 --> 00:42:43,060
They are as
smooth to the touch
as a yearling's coat.

645
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:47,564
Are you calling me
a liar, boy?

646
00:42:50,485 --> 00:42:52,819
It's all a matter
of perspective, sir.

647
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:55,030
From where you stand,
you may see differently,

648
00:42:55,156 --> 00:42:56,782
but the hands
are not mistaken.

649
00:42:57,325 --> 00:43:01,578
I simply ask that you use
all your senses before
rendering judgment.

650
00:43:03,122 --> 00:43:06,333
Oh, my, you are a brute.

651
00:43:07,835 --> 00:43:09,419
You are a dog.
(SHOUTS)

652
00:43:10,088 --> 00:43:12,756
And no better for
following instruction!

653
00:43:14,133 --> 00:43:15,133
I do as ordered.

654
00:43:15,218 --> 00:43:16,384
Then you'll be
up at daybreak.

655
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:19,346
You will procure
a keg of nails from Chapin...

656
00:43:19,514 --> 00:43:21,515
and commence to
putting on clapboards.

657
00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:22,849
Yes, sir.

658
00:43:28,314 --> 00:43:29,981
Make them boards flush.

659
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:41,368
ELIZA: No, please!
Please, Sam!

660
00:43:41,536 --> 00:43:43,870
Where am I going?
Where am I going, Sam?

661
00:43:44,372 --> 00:43:46,873
Solomon! Solomon!

662
00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:48,708
Solomon!

663
00:43:49,669 --> 00:43:51,336
Solomon!

664
00:43:51,754 --> 00:43:53,171
(SOBBING)

665
00:43:55,007 --> 00:43:57,050
Solomon!

666
00:44:02,473 --> 00:44:05,809
ELIZA: When I say I had
<i>my Master's favor,</i>
<i>you understand.</i>

667
00:44:08,396 --> 00:44:09,521
And for nine years...

668
00:44:09,689 --> 00:44:13,567
he blessed me
with every comfort
and luxury in life.

669
00:44:13,734 --> 00:44:16,194
Silks and jewels...

670
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:18,822
and even servants
to wait upon us.

671
00:44:20,908 --> 00:44:23,326
Such was our life.

672
00:44:23,494 --> 00:44:26,371
And the life of
this beautiful girl
I bore for him.

673
00:44:29,542 --> 00:44:31,710
But Master Berry's daughter...

674
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:35,547
she always looked at me
with an unkind nature.

675
00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:40,051
And she hated Emily,
no matter she and Emily
were flesh of flesh.

676
00:44:43,222 --> 00:44:44,848
As Master Berry's
health failed,

677
00:44:44,974 --> 00:44:46,600
she gained power
of the household...

678
00:44:47,268 --> 00:44:49,603
and eventually, I was
brought to the city under
the false pretense...

679
00:44:49,770 --> 00:44:52,564
of our free papers
being executed.

680
00:44:56,611 --> 00:44:58,904
My poor children.

681
00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:22,510
(BELL TOLLING)

682
00:45:27,266 --> 00:45:28,642
(HAMMERING)

683
00:45:37,735 --> 00:45:40,612
I thought I told
you to commence
to putting on clapboards.

684
00:45:41,656 --> 00:45:44,491
Yes, Master, I'm about it.
These have all been replaced.

685
00:45:45,660 --> 00:45:47,911
And didn't I tell you
to get a keg of nails?

686
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:49,746
And so, I did.

687
00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:51,915
So, you did.

688
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,669
God damn you.
I thought you
knowed something!

689
00:45:55,836 --> 00:45:57,337
I did as instructed.

690
00:45:57,505 --> 00:46:00,715
If there's something wrong,
it's wrong with
the instruction.

691
00:46:01,175 --> 00:46:03,176
You black bastard.

692
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:08,598
You goddamn black bastard.

693
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:10,809
Strip your clothes.

694
00:46:13,145 --> 00:46:14,312
Strip.

695
00:46:15,314 --> 00:46:16,856
I will not.

696
00:46:21,112 --> 00:46:22,362
(BOTH GRUNTING)

697
00:46:24,740 --> 00:46:25,824
(TIBEATS GROANS)

698
00:46:26,409 --> 00:46:32,539
You will not live
to see another day, nigger!

699
00:46:33,582 --> 00:46:34,666
Help!

700
00:46:34,875 --> 00:46:36,376
(SCREAMING)

701
00:46:40,464 --> 00:46:41,715
Murder!

702
00:46:44,010 --> 00:46:45,010
I'm sorry!

703
00:46:45,636 --> 00:46:47,887
I'm sorry!
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

704
00:46:48,973 --> 00:46:50,640
(WHIMPERING)

705
00:46:50,933 --> 00:46:52,517
CHAPIN: What is the matter?

706
00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:54,185
What is the matter?

707
00:46:55,062 --> 00:46:56,438
Master Tibeats
wants to whip me

708
00:46:56,564 --> 00:46:57,981
for using
the nails you gave me.

709
00:46:58,065 --> 00:46:59,107
(SPITS)

710
00:46:59,859 --> 00:47:01,985
This ain't done by half.

711
00:47:02,445 --> 00:47:04,654
I will have flesh.

712
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:07,073
And I will have all of it!

713
00:47:07,283 --> 00:47:08,908
(PANTING)

714
00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:11,828
CHAPIN: Do not stir.

715
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:15,707
Do not leave the plantation.
For, if you run,
I cannot protect you.

716
00:47:16,459 --> 00:47:17,751
Stay here.

717
00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:19,919
(PANTING)

718
00:47:55,206 --> 00:47:57,082
(HORSES APPROACHING)

719
00:48:08,427 --> 00:48:09,636
(GROANING)

720
00:48:11,180 --> 00:48:12,806
(CHOKING)

721
00:48:21,148 --> 00:48:25,068
Gentlemen,
whoever moves that nigger
is a dead man.

722
00:48:25,569 --> 00:48:26,861
(GASPING)

723
00:48:26,946 --> 00:48:29,864
I am the overseer
on this plantation.

724
00:48:30,032 --> 00:48:32,742
William Ford holds
the mortgage on Platt.

725
00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:35,662
If you hang him,
he will lose his debt.

726
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,498
You have
no claim to his life.

727
00:48:38,958 --> 00:48:40,500
As for you two...

728
00:48:40,668 --> 00:48:43,670
if you have any regard
for your own safety...

729
00:48:43,838 --> 00:48:44,796
I say, be gone!

730
00:48:48,384 --> 00:48:50,218
You got no cause!

731
00:48:50,386 --> 00:48:53,847
Platt is mine,
and mine to do
with as I please!

732
00:48:54,014 --> 00:48:55,932
If you touch...
(COCKS GUN)

733
00:49:09,530 --> 00:49:10,947
(PANTING)

734
00:49:22,293 --> 00:49:22,959
Sam!

735
00:49:23,794 --> 00:49:26,087
Fetch the mule.
Get Master Ford.

736
00:49:29,049 --> 00:49:31,009
(CONTINUES PANTING)

737
00:51:10,276 --> 00:51:11,442
(COUGHS)

738
00:51:37,386 --> 00:51:38,595
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

739
00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:47,186
(GASPING)

740
00:52:14,006 --> 00:52:15,381
(HORSE APPROACHING)

741
00:52:21,013 --> 00:52:23,264
Platt. Poor Platt.

742
00:52:25,643 --> 00:52:26,517
(GRUNTS)

743
00:52:31,398 --> 00:52:32,523
(DOOR CLOSES)

744
00:52:41,575 --> 00:52:42,825
(DOOR OPENS)

745
00:52:52,878 --> 00:52:55,338
I believe Tibeats is
skulking about
the premises somewhere.

746
00:52:55,506 --> 00:52:58,716
He wants you dead,
and he will have it so.

747
00:52:58,884 --> 00:53:01,094
It's no longer
safe for you here.

748
00:53:01,261 --> 00:53:05,056
And I don't believe
you will remain passive
if Tibeats attacks.

749
00:53:05,224 --> 00:53:08,267
I have transferred
my debt to Edwin Epps.

750
00:53:08,435 --> 00:53:10,353
He will take charge...
(HORSE NEIGHING)

751
00:53:31,041 --> 00:53:32,709
Master Ford.

752
00:53:35,087 --> 00:53:37,839
You must know
that I'm not a slave.

753
00:53:38,298 --> 00:53:39,340
I cannot hear that.

754
00:53:39,508 --> 00:53:41,467
Before I came to you,
I was a freeman.

755
00:53:41,635 --> 00:53:44,303
I'm trying to save your life!

756
00:53:45,472 --> 00:53:48,015
And I have a debt
to be mindful of.

757
00:53:50,394 --> 00:53:52,437
And that is
to Edwin Epps now.

758
00:53:52,604 --> 00:53:55,398
And he is a hard man.
Prides himself
on being a nigger breaker.

759
00:53:55,566 --> 00:53:58,609
But truthfully,
I could find no others
who would take you.

760
00:53:59,194 --> 00:54:01,696
You've made
a reputation of yourself.

761
00:54:02,364 --> 00:54:07,160
Whatever the circumstances,
you are an exceptional
nigger, Platt.

762
00:54:09,079 --> 00:54:11,873
But I fear no good
will come of it.

763
00:54:34,605 --> 00:54:36,397
"And that servant...

764
00:54:37,566 --> 00:54:40,109
"which knew
his lord's will..."

765
00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:44,947
Which knew his lord's will.

766
00:54:49,036 --> 00:54:51,704
"...and prepared
not himself..."

767
00:54:53,373 --> 00:54:55,875
Prepared not himself.

768
00:54:59,922 --> 00:55:02,590
"...neither did
according to his will...

769
00:55:04,551 --> 00:55:07,720
"shall be beaten
with many stripes."

770
00:55:09,056 --> 00:55:10,515
Do you hear that?

771
00:55:11,183 --> 00:55:12,517
"Stripes."

772
00:55:13,769 --> 00:55:15,895
That nigger that
don't obey his lord...

773
00:55:16,063 --> 00:55:18,105
That's his master,
do you see?

774
00:55:18,941 --> 00:55:23,611
That there nigger
shall be beaten
with many stripes.

775
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,033
Now, "many"
signifies a great many.

776
00:55:29,576 --> 00:55:33,412
40, 100, 150 lashes.

777
00:55:38,085 --> 00:55:39,669
That's scripture.

778
00:55:40,420 --> 00:55:42,088
(WOMAN HUMMING)

779
00:55:42,965 --> 00:55:44,632
(ALL HUMMING)

780
00:55:56,061 --> 00:55:57,603
EDWARD: Pick that cotton.

781
00:55:57,771 --> 00:55:59,689
Move along, now.
(WHIP CRACKS)

782
00:56:01,942 --> 00:56:04,777
TREACH: Come on, Edward!
Drive them niggers!

783
00:56:04,945 --> 00:56:07,947
Pick that cotton!
Move along, now.

784
00:56:08,657 --> 00:56:10,616
TREACH: What are you
doing, boy? Come on!

785
00:56:13,453 --> 00:56:15,663
TREACH: 240 for Bob.

786
00:56:16,123 --> 00:56:18,082
EPPS: What
you got for James?

787
00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:20,626
295 pounds.

788
00:56:20,794 --> 00:56:23,838
That's real good, boy.
That's real good.

789
00:56:24,464 --> 00:56:26,591
182 for Platt.

790
00:56:28,218 --> 00:56:31,095
How much can even
an average nigger
pick a day?

791
00:56:31,263 --> 00:56:32,513
200 pounds.

792
00:56:32,681 --> 00:56:34,557
This nigger
ain't even average.

793
00:56:36,351 --> 00:56:38,644
512 pounds for Patsey.

794
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:41,480
512!

795
00:56:42,399 --> 00:56:46,402
You menfolk got no shame
letting Patsey out-pick you.

796
00:56:47,988 --> 00:56:51,532
The day ain't yet come
she swung lower
than 500 pounds.

797
00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:57,330
Queen of the fields,
she is.

798
00:56:57,497 --> 00:56:58,539
TREACH: 138 pounds...

799
00:56:58,707 --> 00:57:00,458
I ain't done, Treach.

800
00:57:01,168 --> 00:57:04,754
Ain't I owed
a minute to luxuriate
on the work Patsey done?

801
00:57:05,297 --> 00:57:06,464
Yes, sir.

802
00:57:10,594 --> 00:57:12,178
Damn queen.

803
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,682
Born and bred
to the field.

804
00:57:18,226 --> 00:57:20,603
A nigger among niggers.

805
00:57:22,689 --> 00:57:24,690
And God gave her to me.

806
00:57:28,862 --> 00:57:31,781
A lesson in the rewards
of righteous living.

807
00:57:33,742 --> 00:57:35,952
All be observant to that.

808
00:57:37,079 --> 00:57:39,038
All!

809
00:57:39,873 --> 00:57:42,375
Now, Treach. Now speak.

810
00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:46,087
138 pounds for Phebe.

811
00:57:46,797 --> 00:57:49,882
Hit 145 yesterday.
Pull her out.

812
00:57:50,717 --> 00:57:52,718
206 pounds for George.

813
00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:55,054
How much he pick yesterday?

814
00:57:56,098 --> 00:57:57,556
229.

815
00:57:57,724 --> 00:57:58,891
Get him out.

816
00:57:59,059 --> 00:58:00,476
Come on, get.

817
00:58:02,396 --> 00:58:03,813
Come on.

818
00:58:03,981 --> 00:58:05,773
EPPS: Come on, boy, move!

819
00:58:11,405 --> 00:58:12,697
(WHIP CRACKING)

820
00:58:12,781 --> 00:58:14,073
(MAN GROANING)
(WOMAN GROANING)

821
00:58:26,670 --> 00:58:28,045
(HUMMING)

822
00:59:46,958 --> 00:59:48,292
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

823
00:59:48,752 --> 00:59:50,044
(DOOR OPENS)

824
00:59:50,337 --> 00:59:52,046
(SINGING)

825
00:59:54,049 --> 00:59:55,007
Get up!

826
00:59:55,175 --> 00:59:56,634
We dance tonight!
Get up!

827
00:59:56,802 --> 00:59:58,302
Get your fiddle, Platt.
Get up!

828
00:59:58,470 --> 01:00:00,513
Come on!
Get, get, get!

829
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,515
Come on, Platt. Come on!

830
01:00:02,849 --> 01:00:04,225
(UPBEAT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)

831
01:00:04,309 --> 01:00:05,559
(EPPS CLAPPING)

832
01:00:14,319 --> 01:00:17,321
Come on,
where's your merriment?
Move your feet!

833
01:00:29,167 --> 01:00:30,960
(GROANS)
(MUSIC STOPS)

834
01:00:31,294 --> 01:00:32,419
MISTRESS EPPS: Sell her.
(PATSEY SOBBING)

835
01:00:32,587 --> 01:00:33,587
EPPS: What's all this?

836
01:00:33,755 --> 01:00:36,257
You will sell the negress.

837
01:00:36,424 --> 01:00:38,217
Sell little Pats?

838
01:00:38,385 --> 01:00:41,095
She pick with more vigor
than any other nigger.

839
01:00:41,555 --> 01:00:42,263
Choose another to go.

840
01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:44,056
No other.

841
01:00:44,224 --> 01:00:45,558
Sell her.

842
01:00:45,934 --> 01:00:47,309
I will not.

843
01:00:48,562 --> 01:00:51,522
You will remove
that black bitch
from this property...

844
01:00:51,690 --> 01:00:54,608
or I'll take myself
back to Cheneyville.

845
01:00:55,610 --> 01:00:57,069
(SOBBING CONTINUES)

846
01:00:58,363 --> 01:01:00,656
Back to that hog's trough
where I found you?

847
01:01:03,618 --> 01:01:07,496
Do not set yourself up
against Patsey, my dear.

848
01:01:11,459 --> 01:01:13,252
Because I will
rid myself of you

849
01:01:13,420 --> 01:01:15,254
well before
I do away with her.

850
01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:24,722
What you looking at?

851
01:01:26,016 --> 01:01:27,683
Damn woman.

852
01:01:28,476 --> 01:01:30,561
I won't have
my mood spoiled.

853
01:01:30,979 --> 01:01:32,813
I will not.

854
01:01:34,191 --> 01:01:34,940
Dance.
(MUSIC RESUMES)

855
01:01:35,275 --> 01:01:36,901
Dance, I says!
(GROANING)

856
01:01:41,448 --> 01:01:42,948
Come on!

857
01:01:43,116 --> 01:01:46,452
Pick it up, Platt.
Play that fiddle, boy.

858
01:01:46,536 --> 01:01:47,536
(EPPS WHOOPING)

859
01:01:56,296 --> 01:01:57,713
(BLOWING)

860
01:02:22,989 --> 01:02:24,114
MISTRESS EPPS: Platt.

861
01:02:25,992 --> 01:02:27,451
Yes, Mistress?

862
01:02:29,496 --> 01:02:32,039
Can you find your
way to Bartholomew's?

863
01:02:32,666 --> 01:02:33,916
I can, ma'am.

864
01:02:34,334 --> 01:02:36,085
This is a list of
goods and sundries.

865
01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:39,171
You will take it
to be filled and
return immediately.

866
01:02:39,339 --> 01:02:41,548
Take your tag.

867
01:02:41,716 --> 01:02:43,509
Tell Bartholomew to
add it to our debt.

868
01:02:43,677 --> 01:02:44,677
Yes, Mistress.

869
01:02:46,846 --> 01:02:48,931
Where you from, Platt?

870
01:02:51,059 --> 01:02:52,309
I told you.

871
01:02:52,477 --> 01:02:54,228
Tell me again.

872
01:02:54,771 --> 01:02:55,771
Washington.

873
01:02:55,939 --> 01:02:56,897
Who were your master?

874
01:02:57,023 --> 01:02:57,982
Master name a Freeman.

875
01:02:58,149 --> 01:02:59,900
Was he a learned man?

876
01:03:00,735 --> 01:03:02,319
I suppose so.

877
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:03,904
He learn you to read?

878
01:03:05,865 --> 01:03:07,992
A word, here or there.

879
01:03:08,576 --> 01:03:09,952
But I have no understanding
of the written...

880
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,329
Don't trouble
yourself with it.

881
01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:16,292
Same as the rest.
Master brought you
here to work, that's all.

882
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:20,129
Any more will
earn you 100 lashes.

883
01:04:07,886 --> 01:04:09,470
(PANTING)

884
01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:20,272
(DOG WHIMPERING)

885
01:04:26,112 --> 01:04:27,112
Come here, boy.

886
01:04:30,116 --> 01:04:31,450
Come on.

887
01:04:47,634 --> 01:04:49,301
Where you going, boy?

888
01:04:49,469 --> 01:04:51,970
On my way to Bartholomew's.

889
01:04:52,138 --> 01:04:54,390
Sent by Mistress Epps.

890
01:04:58,186 --> 01:05:00,145
You best get there, then.

891
01:05:01,231 --> 01:05:02,815
Get there quick.

892
01:05:15,995 --> 01:05:17,371
(MEN CHOKING)

893
01:05:17,455 --> 01:05:18,831
(DOG BARKING)

894
01:05:31,678 --> 01:05:33,345
(SHOPKEEPER MUTTERING)

895
01:05:51,865 --> 01:05:53,198
Any trouble?

896
01:05:53,366 --> 01:05:55,868
No, ma'am. No trouble.

897
01:06:43,750 --> 01:06:45,250
(PANTING)

898
01:06:54,594 --> 01:06:56,303
Platt Epps,
good Sunday morning.

899
01:06:56,471 --> 01:06:57,763
Good morning,
Master Shaw.

900
01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:00,390
Master sent me to
retrieve Patsey.
May I approach?

901
01:07:00,558 --> 01:07:01,767
You may.

902
01:07:03,102 --> 01:07:04,686
(PANTING)

903
01:07:06,105 --> 01:07:07,231
(WOMEN LAUGHING)

904
01:07:12,237 --> 01:07:13,862
Excuse me, Mistress Shaw.

905
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:15,614
Nigger Platt.

906
01:07:15,782 --> 01:07:17,574
Patsey, Master
wishes you to return.

907
01:07:17,742 --> 01:07:19,368
The Sabbath day,
I is free to roam.

908
01:07:19,786 --> 01:07:22,538
Master sent me running
to fetch you, said
no time should be wasted.

909
01:07:22,789 --> 01:07:24,414
Drink of tea?

910
01:07:24,582 --> 01:07:26,458
Thank you, Mistress,
but I don't dare.

911
01:07:26,626 --> 01:07:28,627
Would you know of
Master Epps's consternation...

912
01:07:28,795 --> 01:07:31,964
to be any lessened
with your timely return?

913
01:07:32,632 --> 01:07:34,925
Anger's his
constant condition.

914
01:07:35,093 --> 01:07:35,884
Sit.

915
01:07:36,594 --> 01:07:38,637
Sit and drink
the tea that I offered.

916
01:07:43,768 --> 01:07:45,894
What'n be Epps's concern?

917
01:07:45,979 --> 01:07:47,271
(SIGHS)

918
01:07:47,772 --> 01:07:49,481
I'd rather not say.

919
01:07:50,066 --> 01:07:54,319
Oh, little gossip on
the Sabbath be fine.
All things in moderation.

920
01:07:56,072 --> 01:07:58,115
As you are aware...

921
01:07:58,283 --> 01:08:04,162
Master Epps is a man
of hard countenance.

922
01:08:04,497 --> 01:08:06,665
You know he has ill feeling
towards your husband.

923
01:08:06,833 --> 01:08:08,083
He do.

924
01:08:09,002 --> 01:08:11,086
Master Epps has somehow
come to believe...

925
01:08:11,254 --> 01:08:15,257
that Master Shaw
is something of a lothario.

926
01:08:16,843 --> 01:08:19,303
A misguided belief,
no doubt.

927
01:08:19,470 --> 01:08:20,637
No doubt...

928
01:08:20,805 --> 01:08:22,931
if not born out
of truth itself.

929
01:08:25,184 --> 01:08:26,768
I meant
no disrespect.

930
01:08:27,186 --> 01:08:28,979
He ain't heard you.

931
01:08:29,355 --> 01:08:31,607
SOLOMON: I meant
no disrespect
to you, Mistress.

932
01:08:31,691 --> 01:08:33,108
(LAUGHS)

933
01:08:34,569 --> 01:08:38,155
Got no cause to worry
for my sensibilities.

934
01:08:38,906 --> 01:08:43,493
I ain't felt the end
of a lash in more
years I can recall.

935
01:08:43,661 --> 01:08:45,746
I ain't worked a field,
neither.

936
01:08:46,372 --> 01:08:48,165
Where once I served...

937
01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:51,251
now, I have
others serving me.

938
01:08:51,878 --> 01:08:54,463
The cost to
my current existence...

939
01:08:54,631 --> 01:08:57,758
be Master Shaw
broadcasting his affections...

940
01:08:57,925 --> 01:09:00,761
and me enjoying
the pantomime of his fidelity.

941
01:09:02,138 --> 01:09:06,558
If that what keep me from
cotton picking niggers,
that what it be.

942
01:09:06,726 --> 01:09:10,437
A small and reasonable price
to be paid, for sure.

943
01:09:14,901 --> 01:09:17,444
I know what it like
to be the object

944
01:09:17,570 --> 01:09:20,155
of Master's predilections
and peculiarities.

945
01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:23,950
A lusty visit
in the night...

946
01:09:24,118 --> 01:09:26,578
or a visitation
with the whip.

947
01:09:27,955 --> 01:09:29,498
Take comfort, Patsey.

948
01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:31,875
The good Lord
will manage Epps.

949
01:09:32,335 --> 01:09:36,880
In His own time,
the good Lord
will manage them all.

950
01:09:37,173 --> 01:09:40,425
The curse of the pharaohs
were a poor example...

951
01:09:40,593 --> 01:09:43,512
of what wait for
the plantation class.

952
01:09:48,935 --> 01:09:50,602
This is nice.

953
01:10:01,948 --> 01:10:04,491
EPPS: Pats. Patsey!

954
01:10:04,659 --> 01:10:06,326
Do not look
in his direction.
Continue on.

955
01:10:06,953 --> 01:10:08,704
Patsey!
Found her, Master.

956
01:10:09,205 --> 01:10:11,498
And brought her back,
just as instructed.

957
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:16,211
What did you
just now tell her?

958
01:10:16,379 --> 01:10:18,046
What did you say to Pats?

959
01:10:19,215 --> 01:10:20,966
No words were spoken,
none of consequence.

960
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,344
You're a liar.

961
01:10:24,679 --> 01:10:26,638
You damn liar.

962
01:10:27,390 --> 01:10:29,683
I saw you talking with her.

963
01:10:30,643 --> 01:10:32,185
Tell me.

964
01:10:33,813 --> 01:10:35,522
I cannot speak of
what did not occur.

965
01:10:35,815 --> 01:10:37,566
I'll cut
your black throat!

966
01:10:37,734 --> 01:10:38,859
Master!

967
01:10:39,402 --> 01:10:40,819
You come here.

968
01:10:41,195 --> 01:10:42,320
Master Epps.
I said come here!

969
01:10:42,488 --> 01:10:43,363
I brought her back,
just like you...

970
01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:46,700
Come here!
Master!

971
01:10:48,911 --> 01:10:49,911
Master.

972
01:10:52,582 --> 01:10:54,833
I got her,
just as instructed.

973
01:10:56,210 --> 01:10:57,210
Master Epps!

974
01:10:57,503 --> 01:10:59,004
You stay away
from Pats, boy.

975
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:02,299
(PIGS SQUEALING)

976
01:11:05,219 --> 01:11:06,553
Master Epps.

977
01:11:08,181 --> 01:11:09,264
(GROANS)

978
01:11:19,692 --> 01:11:21,109
(LAUGHING)

979
01:11:22,653 --> 01:11:23,820
(PANTING)

980
01:11:27,116 --> 01:11:28,408
(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

981
01:11:33,372 --> 01:11:35,248
It's the Lord's day.

982
01:11:36,709 --> 01:11:39,586
Ain't nothing Christian
in us carrying on like this.

983
01:11:40,046 --> 01:11:41,588
(PANTING)

984
01:11:46,552 --> 01:11:48,011
I concede to you.

985
01:11:50,723 --> 01:11:52,015
In the name of valor...

986
01:11:53,684 --> 01:11:54,893
help your master to his feet.

987
01:11:59,565 --> 01:12:00,690
I'm gonna kill you!

988
01:12:01,192 --> 01:12:02,692
MISTRESS EPPS:
What's the fuss?

989
01:12:02,860 --> 01:12:04,528
Master Epps
believed Patsey and me

990
01:12:04,654 --> 01:12:06,321
to be in conversation
when we were not.

991
01:12:06,489 --> 01:12:07,739
I tried to explain,
but it's led to all this.

992
01:12:07,907 --> 01:12:08,740
What is it?

993
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,035
You can't remain
the Sabbath without
her under your eye?

994
01:12:12,203 --> 01:12:13,954
You are
a no-account bastard.

995
01:12:14,038 --> 01:12:16,039
A filthy,
godless heathen.

996
01:12:16,207 --> 01:12:18,834
My bed is too holy
for you to share.

997
01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:20,085
What's he been
telling you?

998
01:12:20,253 --> 01:12:21,586
Of your misbegotten ways.

999
01:12:21,754 --> 01:12:23,755
And he would know
what of anything?

1000
01:12:24,882 --> 01:12:26,758
I ain't even
spoken with him today.

1001
01:12:27,552 --> 01:12:29,427
You lying nigger, Platt.

1002
01:12:30,096 --> 01:12:31,179
Have I?

1003
01:12:33,558 --> 01:12:34,766
Have I?

1004
01:12:37,353 --> 01:12:39,771
There. There's
all the truth he got.

1005
01:12:40,773 --> 01:12:42,023
Damn nigger.

1006
01:13:59,101 --> 01:14:00,185
(GRUNTS)

1007
01:14:08,194 --> 01:14:09,569
(PANTING)

1008
01:14:16,202 --> 01:14:17,369
(GRUNTS)

1009
01:14:21,499 --> 01:14:22,958
(PANTING)

1010
01:14:33,886 --> 01:14:35,136
Patsey.

1011
01:14:41,060 --> 01:14:42,394
(CHOKING)

1012
01:14:53,572 --> 01:14:55,573
(GASPING)

1013
01:16:03,893 --> 01:16:05,477
(UPBEAT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)

1014
01:16:31,921 --> 01:16:34,339
MISTRESS EPPS: A moment
from the dancing.

1015
01:16:35,508 --> 01:16:37,759
Come sample what
I baked for y'all.

1016
01:16:37,927 --> 01:16:40,678
MEN: Thank you, Mistress.

1017
01:16:40,763 --> 01:16:41,721
WOMEN: Thank you, Mistress.

1018
01:16:41,889 --> 01:16:44,015
There will be
none for you, Patsey.

1019
01:16:45,518 --> 01:16:47,018
You see that?

1020
01:16:47,394 --> 01:16:50,188
You see that look
of insolence she give me?

1021
01:16:51,023 --> 01:16:52,524
I seen nothing
but her turn away.

1022
01:16:52,691 --> 01:16:54,901
Are you blind
or ignorant?

1023
01:16:55,069 --> 01:16:57,362
It was hot,
hateful scorn.

1024
01:16:57,530 --> 01:16:59,614
It filled that black face.

1025
01:17:00,199 --> 01:17:01,366
You tell me you
didn't see it...

1026
01:17:01,534 --> 01:17:05,537
it's because you
choose not to look,
or are you saying I lie?

1027
01:17:05,704 --> 01:17:08,039
Whatever it was,
it passed.

1028
01:17:08,707 --> 01:17:11,459
Is that how you
are with the niggers?

1029
01:17:12,044 --> 01:17:15,213
Letting every ill thought
fester inside them?

1030
01:17:15,965 --> 01:17:17,382
Look at them.

1031
01:17:17,550 --> 01:17:19,717
They foul with it.

1032
01:17:19,885 --> 01:17:21,970
They foul with their hate.

1033
01:17:22,721 --> 01:17:26,724
You let it be,
it's gonna come back
to us in the dark of night.

1034
01:17:26,892 --> 01:17:28,434
You want that?

1035
01:17:29,145 --> 01:17:31,855
You want them
black animals leave us

1036
01:17:31,981 --> 01:17:34,649
gut like pigs
in our own sleep?

1037
01:17:35,067 --> 01:17:36,192
Oh...

1038
01:17:36,819 --> 01:17:40,071
You are manless.

1039
01:17:40,239 --> 01:17:42,907
A damn eunuch
if there ever was.

1040
01:17:43,492 --> 01:17:45,326
If you won't stand
for me, I pray you'd

1041
01:17:45,452 --> 01:17:47,245
at least be a credit
to your own kind...

1042
01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:49,622
and beat every foul
thought from them.

1043
01:17:58,299 --> 01:17:59,632
(SCREAMING)

1044
01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:01,092
Beat it from them!

1045
01:18:05,723 --> 01:18:07,182
(PATSEY WHIMPERING)

1046
01:18:18,277 --> 01:18:19,110
MISTRESS EPPS: Eat.

1047
01:18:20,362 --> 01:18:21,988
Fill yourselves.

1048
01:18:22,781 --> 01:18:24,032
And then we dance.

1049
01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:31,706
I said, eat.

1050
01:18:36,503 --> 01:18:38,129
(THUNDER RUMBLING)

1051
01:18:46,972 --> 01:18:47,972
Platt.
(GASPS)

1052
01:18:49,642 --> 01:18:51,059
Platt, you awake?

1053
01:18:54,855 --> 01:18:55,897
I am.

1054
01:18:57,066 --> 01:18:59,234
I have a request.

1055
01:18:59,735 --> 01:19:01,903
An act of kindness.

1056
01:19:05,157 --> 01:19:07,867
I secreted it
from the mistress.

1057
01:19:09,578 --> 01:19:10,328
Return it.

1058
01:19:10,496 --> 01:19:12,163
It yours, Platt.

1059
01:19:13,499 --> 01:19:15,166
For what cause?

1060
01:19:15,334 --> 01:19:19,504
All I ask, end my life.

1061
01:19:20,714 --> 01:19:23,925
Take my body to
the margin of the swamp.

1062
01:19:24,093 --> 01:19:27,095
Take me by the throat,
hold me low in the water...

1063
01:19:27,263 --> 01:19:29,931
until I is still
and without life.

1064
01:19:30,516 --> 01:19:32,267
Bury me in
a lonely place of dying.

1065
01:19:32,434 --> 01:19:34,227
I will do no such thing.

1066
01:19:35,437 --> 01:19:37,188
The gory detail
with which you speak...

1067
01:19:37,356 --> 01:19:39,857
I thought on it
long and hard.

1068
01:19:41,235 --> 01:19:43,194
It is melancholia.

1069
01:19:43,779 --> 01:19:45,280
Nothing more.

1070
01:19:46,448 --> 01:19:49,242
How can you fall
into such despair?

1071
01:19:49,410 --> 01:19:52,453
How can you not know?

1072
01:19:54,581 --> 01:19:58,543
I ain't got no
comfort in this life.

1073
01:20:00,879 --> 01:20:04,882
If I can't buy
mercy from you...

1074
01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:07,135
I'll beg it.

1075
01:20:07,303 --> 01:20:08,886
There are others.

1076
01:20:09,930 --> 01:20:11,389
Beg them.
I'm begging you.

1077
01:20:11,557 --> 01:20:12,724
Why?

1078
01:20:13,392 --> 01:20:17,228
Why would you
consign me to damnation
with such an ungodly request?

1079
01:20:17,396 --> 01:20:19,397
There is God here!

1080
01:20:20,232 --> 01:20:23,651
God is merciful...

1081
01:20:23,819 --> 01:20:26,446
and he forgive merciful acts.

1082
01:20:26,822 --> 01:20:29,324
Won't be no hell for you.

1083
01:20:31,410 --> 01:20:32,660
Do it.

1084
01:20:37,750 --> 01:20:40,793
Do what I ain't
got the strength
to do myself.

1085
01:21:20,209 --> 01:21:21,959
<i>EPPS: it's a plague.</i>

1086
01:21:22,961 --> 01:21:24,003
TREACH: it's cotton worm.

1087
01:21:24,171 --> 01:21:26,964
<i>It's a plague.</i>
<i>It's damn biblical.</i>

1088
01:21:28,175 --> 01:21:31,010
<i>Two seasons God done</i>
<i>sent a plague to smite me.</i>

1089
01:21:33,472 --> 01:21:36,974
<i>What I done that</i>
<i>God hates me so?</i>

1090
01:21:43,148 --> 01:21:45,316
It's that godless lot.

1091
01:21:47,194 --> 01:21:49,028
They brought this on me.

1092
01:21:49,196 --> 01:21:51,489
I bring them God's
word and heathens

1093
01:21:51,615 --> 01:21:53,866
they are,
they brung me God's scorn.

1094
01:21:57,538 --> 01:21:58,538
Damn!

1095
01:21:59,415 --> 01:22:00,415
Damn you!

1096
01:22:01,834 --> 01:22:03,209
Damn all y'all!

1097
01:22:30,988 --> 01:22:31,988
Judge.

1098
01:22:32,281 --> 01:22:33,823
Mister Epps.

1099
01:22:35,617 --> 01:22:39,412
I am deeply saddened
to hear about your misfortune.

1100
01:22:39,997 --> 01:22:42,081
Your price don't
reflect your concern.

1101
01:22:44,168 --> 01:22:45,168
Listen up.

1102
01:22:45,836 --> 01:22:47,712
You're Judge Turner's
for the season.

1103
01:22:47,838 --> 01:22:49,672
More, if need be,
until my crops return.

1104
01:22:50,382 --> 01:22:52,758
Y'all bring no
disrespect to me.

1105
01:22:52,926 --> 01:22:55,845
Don't bring no
biblical plagues
to him, you hear?

1106
01:22:56,013 --> 01:22:58,097
Or I'll take it
out on your skin.

1107
01:22:59,099 --> 01:23:00,516
Get out.

1108
01:23:52,444 --> 01:23:54,278
Get off the porch.
You ain't supposed
to be on the porch.

1109
01:23:54,446 --> 01:23:55,738
Get off the porch.

1110
01:24:02,454 --> 01:24:03,788
Platt, is it?

1111
01:24:04,289 --> 01:24:05,289
Yes, sir.

1112
01:24:05,457 --> 01:24:08,459
You cultivate cane previously?

1113
01:24:08,961 --> 01:24:10,127
No, sir, I have not.

1114
01:24:10,295 --> 01:24:12,463
It comes to you
quite naturally.

1115
01:24:12,631 --> 01:24:13,631
Are you educated?

1116
01:24:14,299 --> 01:24:17,677
No, sir.
Niggers are hired to work,
not read or write.

1117
01:24:19,513 --> 01:24:21,138
You play the fiddle.

1118
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:23,432
Yes, sir. Yes, I do.

1119
01:24:24,810 --> 01:24:26,978
Willard Yarner,
a planter up the bayou...

1120
01:24:27,145 --> 01:24:30,439
celebrates his anniversary
in three weeks' time.

1121
01:24:30,607 --> 01:24:32,858
I'll hold out
your name to him.

1122
01:24:33,026 --> 01:24:35,611
What you earn
is yours to keep.

1123
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:37,363
Yes, sir.

1124
01:24:37,990 --> 01:24:39,282
Mind yourself, Platt.

1125
01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:26,871
(SOFT FIDDLE MUSIC PLAYING)

1126
01:26:02,449 --> 01:26:04,075
(MUSIC FADES)

1127
01:26:55,127 --> 01:26:57,253
Whoa!

1128
01:27:03,844 --> 01:27:05,177
Joyous day.

1129
01:27:05,971 --> 01:27:07,972
Joyous day.

1130
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:10,891
Dark times is behind us.

1131
01:27:11,059 --> 01:27:14,478
Clean living and prayer
done lifted the plague!

1132
01:27:16,356 --> 01:27:19,734
As thick and white
as New England snow.

1133
01:27:21,570 --> 01:27:24,071
Now, my niggers
is returned to me.

1134
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:31,078
Heard Judge Turner
gave you favor.

1135
01:27:35,083 --> 01:27:39,503
Did you beguile him, Platt,
with your slick nigger ways?

1136
01:27:42,841 --> 01:27:44,925
You won't stand idle, boy.

1137
01:27:45,385 --> 01:27:47,344
Not on my land.

1138
01:27:50,182 --> 01:27:51,891
Much work to do!

1139
01:27:54,019 --> 01:27:57,021
Days of old
long since, huh?

1140
01:28:03,945 --> 01:28:05,446
Joyous.

1141
01:28:05,614 --> 01:28:08,908
Joyous, indeed! Whoo!

1142
01:28:10,660 --> 01:28:12,912
Let's go find something
sweet for you. Hmm?

1143
01:28:12,996 --> 01:28:14,163
Mmm-hmm.

1144
01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:16,624
Candy.

1145
01:28:16,792 --> 01:28:18,000
Candy?

1146
01:28:19,044 --> 01:28:21,420
(SINGING)
<i>Oh, pick this cotton</i>

1147
01:28:21,588 --> 01:28:22,463
<i>SLAVES: Pick this cotton</i>

1148
01:28:22,631 --> 01:28:24,924
<i>Oh, pick this cotton</i>

1149
01:28:25,091 --> 01:28:27,218
<i>Oh, pick that cotton</i>

1150
01:28:27,385 --> 01:28:29,136
<i>Man ain't mean, boys</i>

1151
01:28:29,304 --> 01:28:30,846
SLAVES: Man
<i>ain't mean, boys</i>

1152
01:28:31,014 --> 01:28:33,015
<i>Man ain't mean, boys</i>

1153
01:28:33,183 --> 01:28:34,266
<i>Man ain't mean</i>

1154
01:28:34,434 --> 01:28:36,894
<i>Oh, work this cotton</i>

1155
01:28:37,062 --> 01:28:38,062
<i>Work this cotton</i>

1156
01:28:38,230 --> 01:28:40,981
<i>Oh, work this cotton</i>

1157
01:28:41,149 --> 01:28:42,274
<i>Work this cotton</i>

1158
01:28:42,442 --> 01:28:45,027
<i>Oh, work ain't hard, boys</i>

1159
01:28:45,529 --> 01:28:46,529
EPPS: George.

1160
01:28:46,696 --> 01:28:48,447
TREACH: 180 pounds.

1161
01:28:48,865 --> 01:28:50,199
Patsey.

1162
01:28:50,367 --> 01:28:52,785
520 pounds for Patsey.

1163
01:28:52,953 --> 01:28:55,746
That's my girl.
Don't ever let me down.

1164
01:28:56,081 --> 01:28:57,289
Platt?

1165
01:28:57,457 --> 01:28:59,708
160 pounds.

1166
01:29:01,461 --> 01:29:03,045
Armsby?

1167
01:29:03,588 --> 01:29:05,506
64 pounds.

1168
01:29:10,345 --> 01:29:12,304
A good day's labor
would average 200 pounds.

1169
01:29:12,597 --> 01:29:13,848
Yes, sir.

1170
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:21,230
I'm sure in time,
you'll develop
as a picker.

1171
01:29:21,648 --> 01:29:23,649
But it takes effort, boy.

1172
01:29:25,193 --> 01:29:27,319
Put some damn
effort into it.

1173
01:29:27,487 --> 01:29:28,153
Yes, sir.

1174
01:29:28,321 --> 01:29:30,406
Take them out,
get to whipping.

1175
01:29:35,620 --> 01:29:36,829
(GROANING)

1176
01:29:36,913 --> 01:29:38,956
ARMSBY: It's a tragedy.

1177
01:29:40,083 --> 01:29:41,834
How does such come to pass?

1178
01:29:42,836 --> 01:29:46,046
Working a field
and picking cotton
like a lowly hand.

1179
01:29:46,590 --> 01:29:48,966
I'm of a damn sight
better station.

1180
01:29:50,010 --> 01:29:52,094
I worked as
an overseer, you know.

1181
01:29:52,262 --> 01:29:53,679
I did not know, sir.

1182
01:29:53,847 --> 01:29:55,347
Not "sir."

1183
01:29:56,016 --> 01:29:57,850
Just "Armsby."

1184
01:29:58,727 --> 01:30:00,895
I'm not owed
more than any other
in the field.

1185
01:30:01,062 --> 01:30:04,023
How did you
arrive at such a place,
if I may ask?

1186
01:30:04,441 --> 01:30:07,026
Ask, it's
just conversation.

1187
01:30:09,154 --> 01:30:12,114
I became
a little too dependent
on the whiskey...

1188
01:30:12,282 --> 01:30:14,742
a little too
undependable on the job.

1189
01:30:15,994 --> 01:30:18,787
Now, before you say
I'm just a sorry drunkard...

1190
01:30:18,955 --> 01:30:21,081
let me state my case.

1191
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:24,126
As reliable employment
as overseeing is,

1192
01:30:24,252 --> 01:30:26,337
it is no easy chore
on the spirit.

1193
01:30:27,172 --> 01:30:30,007
I say,
no man of conscious...

1194
01:30:30,175 --> 01:30:32,635
can take the lash
to another human
day in and day out...

1195
01:30:32,802 --> 01:30:35,179
without shredding
at his own self.

1196
01:30:36,181 --> 01:30:38,349
Takes him to a place...

1197
01:30:38,516 --> 01:30:43,020
where he either makes
excuses within his mind
to be unaffected...

1198
01:30:43,521 --> 01:30:46,857
or he finds some way
to trample his
guilty sensations.

1199
01:30:47,776 --> 01:30:49,360
So, I trampled.

1200
01:30:49,527 --> 01:30:51,445
With frequency.

1201
01:30:52,989 --> 01:30:56,116
I gave in to tales
of wealth and prosperity.

1202
01:30:59,371 --> 01:31:03,874
But such profitable
outcomes are reserved
for plantation masters.

1203
01:31:04,501 --> 01:31:07,670
It's the lot of
the rest of us to serve.

1204
01:31:09,297 --> 01:31:14,677
Now, all I want is
to earn a decent wage
and get myself home.

1205
01:31:35,448 --> 01:31:37,116
(DOOR OPENING)

1206
01:31:46,876 --> 01:31:48,961
The proceeds of
my fiddling performances.

1207
01:31:49,796 --> 01:31:53,924
Just a few picayunes,
but all I have in the world.

1208
01:31:54,551 --> 01:31:57,928
I promise them to you
if you will do me
the favor I require.

1209
01:31:58,096 --> 01:32:02,141
But I beg you not to
expose me if you cannot
grant the request.

1210
01:32:02,684 --> 01:32:03,767
Uh...

1211
01:32:04,477 --> 01:32:06,103
What is it you ask?

1212
01:32:06,271 --> 01:32:08,439
First, your word, sir.

1213
01:32:09,149 --> 01:32:10,149
On my honor.

1214
01:32:12,277 --> 01:32:14,278
It's a simple enough request.

1215
01:32:15,655 --> 01:32:17,448
I only ask that
you deposit a letter

1216
01:32:17,574 --> 01:32:19,324
at the post office
in Marksville...

1217
01:32:19,492 --> 01:32:22,953
and that you keep the action
an inviolable secret forever.

1218
01:32:26,166 --> 01:32:28,625
A patron is what
I require, sir.

1219
01:32:35,175 --> 01:32:36,008
I'll do it.

1220
01:32:37,135 --> 01:32:39,553
And I'll accept
whatever payment's offered.

1221
01:32:42,307 --> 01:32:44,850
To assist you,
I put my own self at risk.

1222
01:32:45,643 --> 01:32:47,478
I will do so...

1223
01:32:47,645 --> 01:32:50,814
but fair compensation
is all I ask.

1224
01:33:00,325 --> 01:33:02,242
Draw up your letter.

1225
01:33:02,410 --> 01:33:04,870
We'll meet again
in two days?

1226
01:33:06,581 --> 01:33:08,373
In two days.

1227
01:33:11,169 --> 01:33:12,669
Thank you.

1228
01:34:02,387 --> 01:34:03,679
(BLOWING)

1229
01:34:30,290 --> 01:34:32,082
Well, boy...

1230
01:34:32,250 --> 01:34:37,087
I understand
I got a learned nigger
that writes letters.

1231
01:34:38,173 --> 01:34:41,258
Tries to get white
fellas to mail them.

1232
01:34:46,306 --> 01:34:47,514
(LAUGHS)

1233
01:34:47,599 --> 01:34:50,267
Armsby told me today...

1234
01:34:50,435 --> 01:34:52,936
the devil was
among my niggers.

1235
01:34:54,606 --> 01:34:57,566
That I had one that
needed watching...

1236
01:34:57,734 --> 01:35:00,068
or he would run away.

1237
01:35:02,030 --> 01:35:03,906
When I asked him why...

1238
01:35:04,782 --> 01:35:08,285
he said you
come over to him...

1239
01:35:08,453 --> 01:35:11,288
waked him up in the
middle of the night...

1240
01:35:11,456 --> 01:35:14,124
and wanted him to
carry a letter...

1241
01:35:15,376 --> 01:35:17,127
to Marksville.

1242
01:35:22,217 --> 01:35:24,635
What do you got
to say to that?

1243
01:35:27,430 --> 01:35:29,223
There's no truth to it.

1244
01:35:30,141 --> 01:35:31,642
You say.

1245
01:35:33,311 --> 01:35:36,104
How could I write a letter
without ink or paper?

1246
01:35:37,273 --> 01:35:40,776
Who am I gonna write to?
I got no friends
living as I know of.

1247
01:35:41,903 --> 01:35:43,570
That Armsby...

1248
01:35:44,989 --> 01:35:48,492
That Armsby is a lying,
drunken fellow.

1249
01:35:50,328 --> 01:35:53,247
Didn't he want you to
hire him as an overseer?

1250
01:35:55,124 --> 01:35:56,750
Well, that's it.

1251
01:35:58,127 --> 01:36:00,170
He wants to
make you believe we're
all gonna run away...

1252
01:36:00,338 --> 01:36:02,839
so you'll hire him
as an overseer.

1253
01:36:04,259 --> 01:36:06,718
He believes
you're a soft soap.

1254
01:36:07,595 --> 01:36:10,055
And he's given to such talk.

1255
01:36:10,890 --> 01:36:14,685
Made this story
out of whole cloth...

1256
01:36:15,228 --> 01:36:17,562
because he wants a situation.

1257
01:36:22,860 --> 01:36:25,404
It's all a lie, Master.

1258
01:36:30,868 --> 01:36:32,869
It's all a lie.

1259
01:36:41,045 --> 01:36:43,046
I'll be damned.

1260
01:36:49,095 --> 01:36:51,847
Were he not free
and white, Platt.

1261
01:36:53,891 --> 01:36:56,268
Were he not free
and white.

1262
01:37:12,910 --> 01:37:14,244
(SOLOMON SIGHS)

1263
01:38:14,180 --> 01:38:16,264
WOMAN: (SINGING)
<i>Sun gonna set here</i>

1264
01:38:16,432 --> 01:38:18,183
<i>SLAVES: Under the mountain</i>

1265
01:38:18,351 --> 01:38:20,394
<i>Sun gonna set here</i>

1266
01:38:20,561 --> 01:38:22,270
<i>Under the mountain</i>

1267
01:38:22,438 --> 01:38:24,314
<i>Sun gonna set here</i>

1268
01:38:24,482 --> 01:38:26,441
<i>Under the mountain</i>
(GROANS)

1269
01:38:27,610 --> 01:38:29,069
TREACH: Edward!

1270
01:38:29,237 --> 01:38:30,862
Get him water.

1271
01:38:31,155 --> 01:38:32,989
(SLAVES CONTINUE SINGING)

1272
01:38:38,204 --> 01:38:39,663
Get up!

1273
01:38:40,581 --> 01:38:41,832
Get up!

1274
01:38:48,506 --> 01:38:49,881
Nigger, get up!

1275
01:38:56,013 --> 01:38:58,265
What you
looking at, boy?

1276
01:38:59,559 --> 01:39:01,685
Keep picking, boy!

1277
01:39:14,615 --> 01:39:18,201
I just wanna say
something about
Uncle Abram.

1278
01:39:22,457 --> 01:39:24,541
He was a good man...

1279
01:39:24,876 --> 01:39:28,128
and he always
looked out for us
ever since we were little.

1280
01:39:28,921 --> 01:39:30,547
God love him.

1281
01:39:31,215 --> 01:39:33,800
God bless him.
God keep him.

1282
01:39:34,886 --> 01:39:36,261
Amen.

1283
01:39:51,569 --> 01:39:54,946
(SINGING) Went down to
<i>the River Jordan</i>

1284
01:39:55,114 --> 01:39:58,283
<i>Where John baptized three</i>

1285
01:39:58,451 --> 01:40:01,453
<i>When I woke</i>
<i>the devil in hell</i>

1286
01:40:01,621 --> 01:40:04,414
<i>Said Johnny baptized me</i>

1287
01:40:04,582 --> 01:40:08,084
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1288
01:40:08,586 --> 01:40:11,087
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1289
01:40:11,255 --> 01:40:14,257
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1290
01:40:14,425 --> 01:40:16,968
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1291
01:40:17,136 --> 01:40:20,514
<i>Well, some say</i>
<i>John was a Baptist</i>

1292
01:40:20,681 --> 01:40:23,266
<i>Some say John was a Jew</i>

1293
01:40:23,434 --> 01:40:25,810
<i>But I say</i>
<i>John was a preacher</i>

1294
01:40:25,978 --> 01:40:28,939
<i>'Cause my Bible says so too</i>

1295
01:40:29,106 --> 01:40:32,609
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1296
01:40:32,777 --> 01:40:35,278
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1297
01:40:35,446 --> 01:40:38,448
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1298
01:40:38,616 --> 01:40:40,367
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1299
01:40:40,535 --> 01:40:41,952
<i>Hallelujah</i>

1300
01:40:42,119 --> 01:40:44,829
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1301
01:40:44,997 --> 01:40:47,624
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1302
01:40:47,792 --> 01:40:50,835
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1303
01:40:51,003 --> 01:40:52,837
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1304
01:40:53,005 --> 01:40:54,214
<i>Hallelujah</i>

1305
01:40:54,382 --> 01:40:57,300
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1306
01:40:57,468 --> 01:41:00,136
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1307
01:41:00,304 --> 01:41:03,348
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1308
01:41:03,516 --> 01:41:05,517
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1309
01:41:05,685 --> 01:41:07,018
<i>Everybody say</i>

1310
01:41:07,186 --> 01:41:10,063
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1311
01:41:10,231 --> 01:41:12,649
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1312
01:41:12,817 --> 01:41:15,819
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1313
01:41:15,987 --> 01:41:17,862
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1314
01:41:18,030 --> 01:41:19,155
<i>Oh, children</i>

1315
01:41:19,323 --> 01:41:22,158
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1316
01:41:22,326 --> 01:41:24,744
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1317
01:41:24,912 --> 01:41:27,831
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1318
01:41:27,999 --> 01:41:29,749
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1319
01:41:29,917 --> 01:41:31,251
<i>Hallelujah</i>

1320
01:41:31,419 --> 01:41:34,170
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1321
01:41:34,338 --> 01:41:36,840
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1322
01:41:37,008 --> 01:41:39,884
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1323
01:41:40,052 --> 01:41:42,512
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1324
01:42:02,366 --> 01:42:04,117
BASS: Right to the end.

1325
01:42:12,627 --> 01:42:14,169
Hey, Bass.

1326
01:42:15,087 --> 01:42:16,546
Oh, no, no, no.

1327
01:42:16,714 --> 01:42:19,174
EPPS: No shame in taking
respite from the heat.

1328
01:42:19,342 --> 01:42:21,051
Drink, shade.

1329
01:42:21,218 --> 01:42:23,803
It's ungodly for travelers,
hearty or otherwise.

1330
01:42:23,888 --> 01:42:25,263
(LAUGHING)

1331
01:42:28,893 --> 01:42:29,976
What's funny?

1332
01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:33,855
Epps, I merely mean to
finish the work at hand,
as requested.

1333
01:42:34,023 --> 01:42:35,815
And as paid for.

1334
01:42:35,983 --> 01:42:37,776
If something
rubs you wrongly...

1335
01:42:37,943 --> 01:42:40,862
I offer you the opportunity
to speak on it.

1336
01:42:44,116 --> 01:42:46,743
You ask plainly,
so I will tell
you plainly.

1337
01:42:47,536 --> 01:42:51,748
What amused me just then
was your concern for my
well-being in this heat...

1338
01:42:51,999 --> 01:42:54,959
when, quite frankly,
the condition of
your laborers...

1339
01:42:55,127 --> 01:42:56,252
"The condition
of my laborers"?

1340
01:42:56,420 --> 01:42:58,421
BASS: It is horrid.
It's all wrong.

1341
01:42:58,589 --> 01:42:59,839
All wrong, Mr. Epps.

1342
01:43:00,007 --> 01:43:02,258
They ain't hired help.

1343
01:43:02,426 --> 01:43:03,468
They're my property.

1344
01:43:04,303 --> 01:43:05,303
You say that with pride.

1345
01:43:05,471 --> 01:43:07,138
I say it as fact.

1346
01:43:09,225 --> 01:43:11,893
If this conversation
concerns what is factual

1347
01:43:12,019 --> 01:43:14,688
and what is not,
then it must be said...

1348
01:43:14,855 --> 01:43:17,982
that there is no justice
nor righteousness
in their slavery.

1349
01:43:18,818 --> 01:43:20,944
But you do open up
an interesting question.

1350
01:43:22,113 --> 01:43:23,530
What right have
you to your niggers,

1351
01:43:23,656 --> 01:43:25,031
when you come
down to the point?

1352
01:43:25,449 --> 01:43:26,741
What right?
Mmm.

1353
01:43:27,368 --> 01:43:30,203
I bought them.
I paid for them.

1354
01:43:30,579 --> 01:43:32,330
Of course you did,
and the law says

1355
01:43:32,456 --> 01:43:34,249
you have the right
to hold a nigger.

1356
01:43:34,417 --> 01:43:36,376
But begging
the law's pardon, it lies.

1357
01:43:37,002 --> 01:43:39,045
Suppose they pass
a law taking away

1358
01:43:39,171 --> 01:43:41,214
your liberty,
making you a slave.

1359
01:43:41,382 --> 01:43:42,507
Suppose.

1360
01:43:42,675 --> 01:43:44,300
That ain't
a supposable case.

1361
01:43:44,468 --> 01:43:45,885
Laws change, Epps.

1362
01:43:46,053 --> 01:43:48,138
Universal truths are constant.

1363
01:43:48,305 --> 01:43:51,141
It is a fact,
a plain and simple fact...

1364
01:43:51,308 --> 01:43:54,519
that what is true and right
is true and right for all.

1365
01:43:54,687 --> 01:43:56,688
White and black alike.

1366
01:43:58,315 --> 01:44:00,150
You comparing me
to a nigger, Bass?

1367
01:44:00,317 --> 01:44:03,153
I'm only asking,
in the eyes of God,
what is the difference?

1368
01:44:05,156 --> 01:44:06,823
You might as well ask
what the difference is

1369
01:44:06,949 --> 01:44:09,325
between a white man
and a baboon.

1370
01:44:10,536 --> 01:44:13,329
I seen one of them
critters in Orleans.

1371
01:44:13,497 --> 01:44:15,874
Know just as much
as any nigger I got.

1372
01:44:16,167 --> 01:44:17,834
BASS: Listen, Epps.

1373
01:44:18,002 --> 01:44:19,669
These niggers
are human beings.

1374
01:44:19,837 --> 01:44:22,172
If they are allowed to
climb no higher than
brute animals...

1375
01:44:22,339 --> 01:44:25,008
you and men like you
will have to answer for it.

1376
01:44:26,010 --> 01:44:28,178
There is an ill,
Mr. Epps...

1377
01:44:28,345 --> 01:44:30,722
a fearful ill
resting upon this nation.

1378
01:44:31,348 --> 01:44:34,350
And there will be
a day of reckoning yet.

1379
01:44:36,937 --> 01:44:39,606
You like to hear
yourself talk, Bass...

1380
01:44:39,774 --> 01:44:41,858
better than
any man I know of.

1381
01:44:42,943 --> 01:44:46,613
You'd argue that
black was white,
or white, black...

1382
01:44:46,781 --> 01:44:49,032
if anybody would
contradict you.

1383
01:44:51,035 --> 01:44:54,412
A fine supposition
if you lived among
Yankees in New England.

1384
01:44:54,580 --> 01:44:56,247
But you don't.

1385
01:44:59,710 --> 01:45:01,878
You most assuredly do not.

1386
01:45:22,149 --> 01:45:23,566
(EPPS YELLING)

1387
01:45:25,820 --> 01:45:26,945
(LOUD CLATTERING)

1388
01:45:27,404 --> 01:45:29,781
EPPS: I knew it,
I knew it, I knew it!

1389
01:45:32,159 --> 01:45:33,576
Patsey!

1390
01:45:35,579 --> 01:45:36,955
Pats!

1391
01:45:37,665 --> 01:45:39,082
Where is she?

1392
01:45:39,834 --> 01:45:41,251
Where's Pats?

1393
01:45:41,418 --> 01:45:43,753
Where is she, damn it?
Where is she?

1394
01:45:45,714 --> 01:45:48,591
Phebs, where is she?
Where is Patsey?
Where is she?

1395
01:45:48,759 --> 01:45:50,051
What you standing
there for?

1396
01:45:50,219 --> 01:45:51,302
We know nothing
of her, Master.

1397
01:45:51,470 --> 01:45:52,887
Know nothing of what?
We know nothing of...

1398
01:45:53,055 --> 01:45:55,431
Of what?
Where has she gone?

1399
01:45:55,599 --> 01:45:56,599
She run off,
ain't she?

1400
01:45:56,767 --> 01:45:57,767
I don't know, Master.

1401
01:45:57,935 --> 01:45:59,477
Where is she?
I don't know, Master.

1402
01:45:59,645 --> 01:46:02,605
You know,
you know, you know!

1403
01:46:02,773 --> 01:46:03,606
You know!

1404
01:46:03,774 --> 01:46:05,441
No, I don't! (GROANS)

1405
01:46:05,985 --> 01:46:07,527
(PANTING)

1406
01:46:07,611 --> 01:46:09,654
You miserable black dogs.

1407
01:46:09,822 --> 01:46:12,282
You stand like
the deaf and dumb.

1408
01:46:14,076 --> 01:46:15,451
Speak!

1409
01:46:29,049 --> 01:46:30,550
(SOBBING)

1410
01:46:30,634 --> 01:46:32,302
She gone.

1411
01:46:34,680 --> 01:46:36,639
My Pats is gone.

1412
01:46:53,532 --> 01:46:55,491
Run off?
Run off, did you?

1413
01:46:55,659 --> 01:46:57,619
Master Epps...
You miserable wench.
Where you been?

1414
01:46:57,786 --> 01:46:59,162
I been nowhere!

1415
01:46:59,330 --> 01:47:00,413
Lies to
your misdeeds!

1416
01:47:00,581 --> 01:47:01,831
The Sabbath day, Master.
I took me

1417
01:47:01,957 --> 01:47:03,166
a walk to
commune with the Lord.

1418
01:47:03,334 --> 01:47:04,667
Bring the Lord
into your deceptions?

1419
01:47:04,793 --> 01:47:06,127
You're coming from
Shaw's plantation.

1420
01:47:06,295 --> 01:47:07,587
No!
Master Epps.

1421
01:47:08,130 --> 01:47:09,130
Now, you speak?

1422
01:47:09,298 --> 01:47:11,341
Now that you want
to add to her lies,
you find your tongue!

1423
01:47:11,508 --> 01:47:13,760
I went to Master
Shaw's plantation.

1424
01:47:13,844 --> 01:47:15,345
Ah! You admit it.

1425
01:47:15,679 --> 01:47:16,971
Yes, freely.

1426
01:47:17,139 --> 01:47:18,973
And you know why?

1427
01:47:19,141 --> 01:47:21,684
I got this
from Mistress Shaw.

1428
01:47:22,186 --> 01:47:26,189
Mistress Epps
won't even grant me
no soap to clean with.

1429
01:47:26,774 --> 01:47:30,360
I stink so much,
I make myself gag!

1430
01:47:33,614 --> 01:47:36,866
500 pounds of cotton.

1431
01:47:37,034 --> 01:47:39,035
Day in, day out!

1432
01:47:39,203 --> 01:47:41,037
More than any man here.

1433
01:47:41,205 --> 01:47:43,289
And for that,
I will be clean.

1434
01:47:43,457 --> 01:47:45,166
That's all I ask.

1435
01:47:45,334 --> 01:47:48,378
This, here,
what I went to Shaw's for.

1436
01:47:49,838 --> 01:47:50,880
Liar.

1437
01:47:51,048 --> 01:47:54,634
The Lord knows
that's all!

1438
01:47:54,802 --> 01:47:55,718
You're a liar.

1439
01:47:55,886 --> 01:47:59,305
And you,
blind with your
own covetousness!

1440
01:48:00,182 --> 01:48:02,308
I don't lie, Master.

1441
01:48:02,810 --> 01:48:06,062
If you kill me,
I'll stick to that.

1442
01:48:06,814 --> 01:48:08,398
I'll fetch you down.

1443
01:48:09,233 --> 01:48:11,275
I'll learn you
to go to Shaw's.

1444
01:48:11,735 --> 01:48:12,819
Treach.

1445
01:48:14,863 --> 01:48:16,364
Run and
fetch some line.

1446
01:48:16,532 --> 01:48:17,699
Edward!

1447
01:48:19,326 --> 01:48:22,328
Strip her. Strike her bare
and lash her to the post.

1448
01:48:27,501 --> 01:48:28,668
(GASPS)

1449
01:48:29,545 --> 01:48:30,920
(SOBBING)

1450
01:48:40,764 --> 01:48:42,849
You done this
to yourself, Pats.

1451
01:48:42,933 --> 01:48:44,475
(CONTINUES SOBBING)

1452
01:48:54,611 --> 01:48:55,778
MISTRESS EPPS: Do it.

1453
01:49:00,868 --> 01:49:03,077
Strike the life
from her.

1454
01:49:09,293 --> 01:49:10,710
Beat her.

1455
01:49:12,337 --> 01:49:14,589
Give her the whip!
Give it all to her!

1456
01:49:15,883 --> 01:49:18,843
Platt, you come here
and you beat her now.

1457
01:49:21,305 --> 01:49:22,388
Platt!

1458
01:49:25,184 --> 01:49:26,434
Come here!

1459
01:49:28,187 --> 01:49:30,354
PATSEY: I'd rather
it you, Platt!

1460
01:49:31,315 --> 01:49:33,066
You strike her.

1461
01:49:33,942 --> 01:49:35,359
Strike her.

1462
01:49:36,737 --> 01:49:38,362
(PATSEY CONTINUES SOBBING)

1463
01:49:49,583 --> 01:49:51,000
(PATSEY YELLS)

1464
01:49:52,878 --> 01:49:54,170
(PATSEY GROANING)

1465
01:49:57,674 --> 01:49:59,258
He pantomimes.

1466
01:49:59,885 --> 01:50:02,303
There's barely
a welt on her.

1467
01:50:02,763 --> 01:50:05,139
That's what your
niggers make of you...

1468
01:50:05,307 --> 01:50:07,475
a fool
for the taking.

1469
01:50:11,980 --> 01:50:14,398
EPPS: Strike her, Platt.
Strike her!

1470
01:50:15,692 --> 01:50:16,859
(GROANING)

1471
01:50:31,125 --> 01:50:32,542
You will strike her.

1472
01:50:32,709 --> 01:50:34,418
You will strike
her until her flesh

1473
01:50:34,545 --> 01:50:36,254
is rent and meat and
blood flow equal...

1474
01:50:36,421 --> 01:50:39,215
or I will kill every
nigger in my sight.

1475
01:50:39,383 --> 01:50:40,883
You understand me?

1476
01:50:41,051 --> 01:50:43,886
Strike her! Strike her!

1477
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:55,898
(PATSEY SCREAMS)

1478
01:50:58,986 --> 01:51:00,653
(PATSEY SOBBING)

1479
01:51:21,508 --> 01:51:23,009
(COUGHING)

1480
01:51:27,139 --> 01:51:29,932
EPPS: Until I say no more.
I ain't said nothing!

1481
01:51:39,860 --> 01:51:41,152
Give me the whip!

1482
01:51:42,154 --> 01:51:43,362
Get up!

1483
01:51:47,826 --> 01:51:49,285
(PATSEY SCREAMING)

1484
01:52:02,799 --> 01:52:04,467
Thou devil!

1485
01:52:07,012 --> 01:52:08,554
Sooner or later...

1486
01:52:09,223 --> 01:52:11,807
somewhere in
the course of eternal

1487
01:52:11,975 --> 01:52:14,560
justice, thou shalt
answer for this sin!

1488
01:52:15,812 --> 01:52:17,313
(PANTING)

1489
01:52:19,983 --> 01:52:23,027
Sin? There is no sin.

1490
01:52:24,488 --> 01:52:27,406
Man does how he pleases
with his property.

1491
01:52:33,038 --> 01:52:36,749
At the moment, Platt,
I'm of great pleasure.

1492
01:52:36,917 --> 01:52:38,751
You be goddamn
careful I don't want to

1493
01:52:38,877 --> 01:52:40,670
come and lighten
my mood no further.

1494
01:53:12,411 --> 01:53:13,703
(GASPS)

1495
01:53:13,870 --> 01:53:15,288
(WHIMPERING)

1496
01:53:20,085 --> 01:53:21,252
(SHOUTS)

1497
01:53:21,878 --> 01:53:23,170
(SOBBING)

1498
01:53:36,601 --> 01:53:38,436
(GASPING IN PAIN)

1499
01:53:49,156 --> 01:53:51,532
(SOBBING)

1500
01:54:58,975 --> 01:55:00,476
Master Bass.

1501
01:55:00,769 --> 01:55:03,938
I want to ask you what part
of the country you come from.

1502
01:55:05,148 --> 01:55:07,024
No part of this land.

1503
01:55:08,110 --> 01:55:10,152
I originate
from Canada.

1504
01:55:11,154 --> 01:55:12,696
Now, guess
where that is.

1505
01:55:12,864 --> 01:55:14,782
I know where Canada is.

1506
01:55:15,617 --> 01:55:17,368
I've been there myself.

1507
01:55:22,290 --> 01:55:24,125
Montreal...

1508
01:55:24,292 --> 01:55:27,336
and Kingston and Queenston
and a great many places.

1509
01:55:27,504 --> 01:55:29,338
Well-traveled for a slave.

1510
01:55:29,506 --> 01:55:30,548
How came you here?

1511
01:55:32,634 --> 01:55:34,301
Master Bass...

1512
01:55:36,638 --> 01:55:40,015
if justice had been done,
I never would have been here.

1513
01:55:44,813 --> 01:55:46,147
How's this?

1514
01:55:47,190 --> 01:55:48,232
Tell me all.

1515
01:55:53,697 --> 01:55:55,865
I'm afraid to tell you.

1516
01:55:57,534 --> 01:56:00,661
Every word you speak
is a profound secret.

1517
01:56:08,211 --> 01:56:09,879
Your story...

1518
01:56:10,547 --> 01:56:12,006
it is amazing.

1519
01:56:12,174 --> 01:56:14,175
And in no good way.

1520
01:56:16,303 --> 01:56:17,553
(SIGHS)

1521
01:56:18,930 --> 01:56:22,558
Do you believe, sir,
in justice, as you said?

1522
01:56:23,727 --> 01:56:25,269
I do.

1523
01:56:25,437 --> 01:56:29,231
That slavery is an evil
that should befall none?

1524
01:56:32,068 --> 01:56:33,861
I believe so.

1525
01:56:34,029 --> 01:56:35,946
If you truly do...

1526
01:56:37,741 --> 01:56:40,784
then I ask, I beg...

1527
01:56:43,455 --> 01:56:46,248
that you write my friends
in the north...

1528
01:56:46,625 --> 01:56:49,418
acquainting them
of my situation...

1529
01:56:50,795 --> 01:56:55,090
and beseeching them
to forward free papers.

1530
01:57:00,096 --> 01:57:01,764
It would be...

1531
01:57:04,768 --> 01:57:07,603
an unspeakable happiness...

1532
01:57:09,231 --> 01:57:11,273
to see my wife...

1533
01:57:13,777 --> 01:57:16,070
and my family again.

1534
01:57:21,952 --> 01:57:25,329
I traveled this country
for the best
part of 20 years...

1535
01:57:25,997 --> 01:57:28,916
and my freedom
is everything.

1536
01:57:29,084 --> 01:57:33,420
The fact that I can
walk out of here tomorrow
brings me great pleasure.

1537
01:57:36,049 --> 01:57:38,300
My life doesn't
mean much to anyone.

1538
01:57:39,636 --> 01:57:43,305
It seems yours
might mean a lot
to a whole lot of people.

1539
01:57:45,058 --> 01:57:49,520
But what you ask of me,
sir, scares me.

1540
01:57:51,690 --> 01:57:54,525
And I must say, I am afraid.

1541
01:57:55,652 --> 01:57:57,987
Not just for you,
but for me.

1542
01:58:07,163 --> 01:58:09,331
I will write
your letter, sir.

1543
01:58:09,874 --> 01:58:11,000
And if it brings you
your freedom,

1544
01:58:11,126 --> 01:58:12,209
it will be more
than a pleasure.

1545
01:58:12,377 --> 01:58:14,336
It will have been my duty.

1546
01:58:14,504 --> 01:58:17,506
Now, would you kindly
hand me those shingles?

1547
02:00:52,078 --> 02:00:53,245
SHERIFF: Platt!

1548
02:00:53,663 --> 02:00:55,706
Where's the boy
called Platt?

1549
02:00:59,002 --> 02:01:00,377
Come here, boy.

1550
02:01:22,525 --> 02:01:24,276
Your name is Platt,
is it?

1551
02:01:26,070 --> 02:01:27,362
Yes, sir.

1552
02:01:28,031 --> 02:01:29,573
You know that man?

1553
02:01:47,383 --> 02:01:48,967
Mr. Parker.

1554
02:01:49,636 --> 02:01:51,136
Say again?

1555
02:01:53,181 --> 02:01:55,015
Mr. Parker.

1556
02:01:55,475 --> 02:01:58,143
That man received
a letter compiling
many accusations.

1557
02:01:58,311 --> 02:02:00,145
You look me in the eye...

1558
02:02:00,814 --> 02:02:02,397
and on your life,
you answer me truthfully.

1559
02:02:02,565 --> 02:02:04,233
Have you any
other name than Platt?

1560
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:06,401
Solomon Northup is my name.

1561
02:02:06,569 --> 02:02:07,736
EPPS: Sheriff,
what's all this?

1562
02:02:07,904 --> 02:02:09,279
It's official business.

1563
02:02:09,447 --> 02:02:10,739
My nigger,
my business.

1564
02:02:10,907 --> 02:02:12,533
Your business waits.

1565
02:02:12,700 --> 02:02:13,784
Tell me of your family.

1566
02:02:14,118 --> 02:02:15,536
I have a wife,
two children.

1567
02:02:15,703 --> 02:02:16,578
What the hell?

1568
02:02:16,704 --> 02:02:18,455
SHERIFF: What are your
children's names?
Margaret and Alonzo.

1569
02:02:18,540 --> 02:02:19,832
What was your wife's name
before her marriage?

1570
02:02:19,916 --> 02:02:21,416
Anne Hampton.
I am who I say.

1571
02:02:21,584 --> 02:02:22,584
Where you going, Platt?

1572
02:02:23,461 --> 02:02:25,337
Who authorized you
to interfere with my property?

1573
02:02:25,505 --> 02:02:26,588
My authority.

1574
02:02:26,756 --> 02:02:28,090
Platt, you come
back here. Platt!

1575
02:02:28,800 --> 02:02:29,925
You come
back here, boy.

1576
02:02:30,927 --> 02:02:32,094
Boy.

1577
02:02:34,556 --> 02:02:36,974
You unhand him.
Platt is my nigger!

1578
02:02:37,141 --> 02:02:38,559
He is
Mr. Solomon Northup.

1579
02:02:38,726 --> 02:02:39,601
You say.

1580
02:02:39,769 --> 02:02:42,229
You come here,
unfamiliar to me,
and make claims.

1581
02:02:42,397 --> 02:02:43,981
I got no doubts.
The man is
Solomon Northup.

1582
02:02:44,148 --> 02:02:46,483
The hell he is!
He's my nigger, and
I'll fight you for him!

1583
02:02:46,651 --> 02:02:47,943
As is your right.

1584
02:02:48,111 --> 02:02:50,279
As it will be my pleasure
to bankrupt you
in the courts.

1585
02:02:50,446 --> 02:02:52,781
Your decision.
Unhand him.

1586
02:02:53,616 --> 02:02:55,033
I know you had some
hand in this, Platt.

1587
02:02:55,159 --> 02:02:56,618
I'm gonna get to
the bottom of it.

1588
02:02:56,786 --> 02:02:57,911
Pay him no mind.

1589
02:02:58,079 --> 02:02:59,454
I paid good money
for this nigger.

1590
02:02:59,581 --> 02:03:00,956
Courthouse got
papers to prove it!

1591
02:03:01,124 --> 02:03:02,916
And we got papers
proving he's free!

1592
02:03:03,084 --> 02:03:04,793
I own you. You belong to me.
You hear me, Platt?

1593
02:03:04,961 --> 02:03:06,086
Unhand him!

1594
02:03:06,254 --> 02:03:08,463
You'll have 200
stripes across your back
by sundown!

1595
02:03:08,631 --> 02:03:09,756
Platt!

1596
02:03:09,966 --> 02:03:11,800
EPPS: Get my horse, Treach.

1597
02:03:20,935 --> 02:03:22,144
Get away from him, Pats.

1598
02:03:23,479 --> 02:03:25,314
I'm gonna be
seeing you real soon.

1599
02:03:25,481 --> 02:03:27,441
Solomon,
we need to make haste.

1600
02:03:29,152 --> 02:03:30,152
No.

1601
02:03:30,737 --> 02:03:32,070
Solomon.

1602
02:05:09,002 --> 02:05:11,169
I'll apologize...

1603
02:05:13,256 --> 02:05:15,257
for my appearance.

1604
02:05:17,844 --> 02:05:19,761
But I have had...

1605
02:05:20,722 --> 02:05:22,681
a difficult time...

1606
02:05:23,683 --> 02:05:26,393
these past several years.

1607
02:05:31,274 --> 02:05:32,607
Margaret.

1608
02:05:38,197 --> 02:05:39,906
Alonzo.

1609
02:06:11,064 --> 02:06:12,773
Who is this?

1610
02:06:13,816 --> 02:06:15,817
He's my husband.

1611
02:06:17,320 --> 02:06:18,487
Husband.

1612
02:06:19,322 --> 02:06:22,657
It is very good
to meet you, sir.

1613
02:06:24,452 --> 02:06:26,661
We have much
acquainting to do.

1614
02:06:26,829 --> 02:06:28,163
Yes, sir.

1615
02:06:29,415 --> 02:06:33,460
And this is
your grandson.

1616
02:06:34,295 --> 02:06:37,464
Solomon Northup Staunton.

1617
02:06:47,683 --> 02:06:49,267
Solomon.

1618
02:06:55,525 --> 02:06:56,817
(SOBBING) Anne...

1619
02:06:59,195 --> 02:07:00,987
forgive me.

1620
02:07:04,534 --> 02:07:08,036
There is nothing
to forgive.

1621
02:11:39,350 --> 02:11:42,769
WOMAN: (SINGING)
<i>Went down to</i>
<i>the River Jordan</i>

1622
02:11:42,937 --> 02:11:46,106
<i>Where John baptized three</i>

1623
02:11:46,273 --> 02:11:49,275
<i>When I woke</i>
<i>the devil in hell</i>

1624
02:11:49,443 --> 02:11:52,237
<i>Said Johnny baptized me</i>

1625
02:11:52,405 --> 02:11:55,865
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1626
02:11:56,367 --> 02:11:58,910
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1627
02:11:59,078 --> 02:12:02,038
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1628
02:12:02,206 --> 02:12:04,791
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1629
02:12:04,959 --> 02:12:08,336
<i>Well, some say</i>
<i>John was a Baptist</i>

1630
02:12:08,504 --> 02:12:11,089
<i>Some say John was a Jew</i>

1631
02:12:11,257 --> 02:12:13,633
<i>But I say</i>
<i>John was a preacher</i>

1632
02:12:13,801 --> 02:12:16,761
<i>'Cause my Bible says so too</i>

1633
02:12:16,929 --> 02:12:20,432
<i>I said roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1634
02:12:20,599 --> 02:12:23,101
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1635
02:12:23,269 --> 02:12:26,271
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1636
02:12:26,439 --> 02:12:28,189
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1637
02:12:28,357 --> 02:12:29,732
<i>Hallelujah</i>

1638
02:12:29,900 --> 02:12:32,652
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1639
02:12:32,820 --> 02:12:35,405
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1640
02:12:35,573 --> 02:12:38,658
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1641
02:12:38,826 --> 02:12:40,660
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1642
02:12:40,828 --> 02:12:42,036
<i>Oh, roll now</i>

1643
02:12:42,204 --> 02:12:45,123
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1644
02:12:45,291 --> 02:12:47,709
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1645
02:12:47,793 --> 02:12:50,879
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1646
02:12:51,046 --> 02:12:52,797
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1647
02:12:52,882 --> 02:12:54,215
<i>Halleluiah</i>

1648
02:12:54,300 --> 02:12:57,177
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1649
02:12:57,344 --> 02:12:59,762
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1650
02:12:59,930 --> 02:13:02,891
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1651
02:13:03,058 --> 02:13:04,976
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1652
02:13:05,144 --> 02:13:06,269
<i>Everybody say</i>

1653
02:13:06,437 --> 02:13:09,230
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1654
02:13:09,648 --> 02:13:12,233
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1655
02:13:12,693 --> 02:13:15,612
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1656
02:13:15,779 --> 02:13:17,530
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1657
02:13:17,698 --> 02:13:19,032
<i>Oh, children</i>

1658
02:13:19,200 --> 02:13:21,951
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1659
02:13:22,119 --> 02:13:24,621
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1660
02:13:24,788 --> 02:13:27,665
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1661
02:13:27,833 --> 02:13:29,792
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>

1662
02:13:29,877 --> 02:13:31,252
<i>Halleluiah</i>

1663
02:13:31,337 --> 02:13:33,588
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1664
02:13:34,256 --> 02:13:36,758
<i>Roll, Jordan, roll</i>

1665
02:13:36,926 --> 02:13:39,928
<i>My soul will</i>
<i>rise in heaven, Lord</i>

1666
02:13:40,012 --> 02:13:42,138
<i>For the year</i>
<i>when Jordan roll</i>