"I'm alex haley, the author of Roots." "During the late 1 700s..." "... slaveescapesto theNorthbegan." "These escapes later became organized and known as the Underground railroad." "My great-great-great-great-grandfather, Kunta Kinte..." "... andhisfriend,fiddler..." "... livedduringtheperiod of those earlier escapes." "This is a dramatization of such an escape..." "... thattakesplace during the Christmas season." "The name Kunta Kinte..." "... wasgivento my ancestor by his African parents." "But another name was given by the master." "Take him up." "Tie him off." "fiddler." "fiddler, there, they got him." "James." "Your name is Toby." "You're going to Iearn to say your name." "Let me hear you say it." "What's your name?" "Kunta." "Kunta Kinte." "When the master gives you something, you take it." "He gave you a name." "It's a nice name." "It's Toby." "And it's going to be yours till the day you die." "Your name is Toby." "What's your name?" "Kunta." "Lord God, help that boy." "They going whip him dead." "What's your name?" "Toby." "Toby." "My name is Toby." "Cut him down." "What you care what that white man call you?" "Make you say Toby." "What you care?" "You know who you be." "Kunta." "That's who you always be." "Kunta Kinte." "There going be another day." "You hear me?" "There going be another day." "Get up there." "That's all for today, boy." "Put that bar down, boy." "I heard about you." "Toby." "Buck African, plucked out the tree." "Don't think I don't know what's on your mind." "I'II drop you, you even blink at me." "You understand?" "I'II be right happy to take these slaves off your hands, sir." "You can go to home fires and be warm and cozy." "They need walking in, cool them down like horses." "I know how to treat my stock." "Oh, yeah, I can see that, sir." "I can" "I can see that with my own eyes." "That's a fine horse you sitting astride of." "So I knows you knows your stock." "I just be afraid that in this cold, a fine horse like that..." "... mightgetallkinkedup." "Might need some unkinking..." "... insteadofhobblingalongside a shiftless bunch of no-account niggers." "I believe the better part of that man be the view we got of his horse." "Come on." "AII right, y'aII, come on in here." "I got some blankets hidden under these corn shucks for you." "Keep out the fever, and it's bound to come in this cold." "And don't be blessing me." "I've been blessed before." "See how far it got me." "Come on, y'aII." "Thank you very much." "Good afternoon." "well, as good as it can be under the circumstances." "I have thirst." "Do you have some water?" "Where you get that horse, boy?" "I am talking to you, boy." "It's been a Iong while since I was a boy." "You are addressing Mr. CIetus Moyer, a free man of color." "Can you prove that, man of color?" "Manumission papers." "I was freed by my master several years ago." "Yes." "Yes." "I can see." "I thank you for the refreshment." "I'II be on my way." "Get these lazy no-accounts back to the yard." "Yes, sir." "And don't forget my pork." "Oh, no, no, sir." "That dinner be right there, sir." "Right there, just as fast as you can say... ." "Fast as you can say manumission." "fiddler, what it mean?" "Yeah?" "What?" "Manumission, what it mean?" "Oh, it mean a black man be free." "Come on, Iet's go." "I said, Iet's go." "AII right, everybody, Iet's get going." "We're finished for the day." "Long walk home." "Come on." "Come on, come on." "Come on." "Who is that, fiddler?" "You know who that was?" "Yeah, I do." "But you don't wanna know." "Eyes front." "He's headed your way." "Get that damn nigger." "Get that damn nigger." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Let's go get him." "Oh, yeah." "You're mine now." "Get out of here, boy." "Grab the other end over there." "I got it." "You got it?" "Here we go." "You better run, boy." "Come on, boy." "You're mine now." "Come on!" "Come on." "We got him now." "AII right." "Easy." "Easy." "I got him." "No, Kunta." "Kunta." "Lord have mercy." "Get out of here, boy." "Get out." "Get out." "Come on, easy." "Who is this boy?" "Kunta, stop it." "Not so high and mighty now, is he?" "No longer is he a free man of color." "He's a captive with a price on his head for helping slaves escape." "He's now retired." "Aren't you, Mr. Moyer?" "You in charge of this boy?" "Yes, ma'am." "It's so cold that his poor brains is froze." "I'm gonna take the boy home, ma'am." "Come on." "Come on." "You got to be careful, Kunta." "You don't go sticking your neck in where you don't belong!" "Them white folks." "They get to do whatever they want, whenever they want to do it..." "... andthesooneryou learnthat ,Kunta, the better off you be." "And that Moyer man..." "... he'sbadnews,Kunta." "He is bad news, boy." "Moyer man say he free, fiddler." "Yeah, yeah, he say he free." "But nobody hear him." "I hears him." "whole lot good that do you." "Sure enough cold out here, fiddler." "Sure is." "Move on away from the door." "Oh, good afternoon, fiddler." "I trust the day finds you in good health." "Just fine, sir." "In the pink, sir." "In the pink." "well, it is a joyous day full of goodness and cheer." "Oh, yes, sir." "It's a joyous season sure enough, sir." "Let me see the fiddle." "Let me see it." "I heard you come through the front door, fiddler." "You've had this for a Iong time, haven't you?" "It's all I got, sir." "But it be enough, don't get me wrong, sir." "It's a bit early, but... ." "Merry Christmas, fiddler." "well, take it." "Take it." "The best fiddler in all the colonies should have the best fiddle, I should say." "It was rescued from the clutches of a 7-year-oId scion of a carolina planter." "well rid of it on all sides, I wager." "As you know, we're going to the Parker plantation tomorrow..." "... andthisshouldgiveyoua few hours ..." "... toacquaintyourself with your new instrument." "Sir, I don't know what to say." "Just play, fiddler." "play in the joyous Christmas spirit in which it was given." "You know, Edmund Parker is a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses..." "... andit'san honortobeinvited." "Have Demetrius ready to get us away just after breakfast tomorrow." "Oh, sir... ." "I done plumb forgot." "Demetrius, he's taken down awful sick." "In fact, everybody in the quarter is about sick as dogs with the chills..." "... andthefeverand whatnot." "I see." "I see." "This is most unexpected." "well, sir... ." "I do believe that... ." "Toby" "Toby?" "A sullen boy." "I have doubts still about him, fiddler." "I'II not have that boy create problems for the holidays." "No, sir." "Nor embarrass the name of ReynoIds." "No, sir." "And I'II have your word on that, fiddler." "Yes, sir." "Thank you, sir." "Thank you." "Master ReynoIds be the best master you'II ever have..." "... andyoubestget that through your African mind." "And we ain't gonna have no more of that Mandinka warrior stuff, you hear me?" "Mandinka warrior got no master but allah, you know that, fiddler." "well, allah don't live in colony Virginia." "God live here." "And his only begotten son, baby Jesus, is what this whole thing be about." "fiddler?" "This baby Jesus... ." "That the same Jesus all the womens all the time be carrying on about?" "Oh, they be carrying on about Jesus, the Son of God." "Growed up." "But what the fuss and hollering be about, that's the little baby Jesus..." "... beforehegrownup." "In fact, Christmas be about little baby Jesus' birthday." "well, why they call it Christmas?" "Because that's what white folks wanna call it." "Then, when he get a little older..." "... theynailhishidetoacross and they crucifies him till he dies." "Then we has Easter." "Don't ask me why they call it Easter, because it gonna be the same answer." "That's what white folks wanna call it." "I don't know why they crucifies him." "Look, white folks ain't never had to have no reason for nothing." "But you said that Jesus be the son of God." "Now, why would folks, even white folks, wanna kill the son of God?" "Even some no-account toubob white God?" "Because maybe they asked so many questions..." "... likesomedumbAfricanniggers I know hereabout." "Look sharp." "well... ." "You... ." "You look almost civilized, Toby." "Like a downright Virginia Christian gentleman, boy." "Come on, Iet's go." "I got you." "Mistress Parker, I do believe your grandchild's beginning to look like a girl." "Now that we got a dress on her, maybe we can keep her from climbing trees." "Seems I remember your mama had the same dilemma with you." "You're the only one old enough around here to remember besides me." "But you are quite right, Mammy May." "Quite right." "Come here, now." "Right here." "Right here." "Got you." "Now, young lady, you just gonna have to Iearn how to wear fancy clothes." "Oh, Mammy." "Mother!" "I can't get that manger scene together, the pageant's less than two days away!" "Mother, do I have to wear this thing?" "That dress is nice, dear." "I just don't know what I'm going to do." "I'm virtually overwhelmed." "The holidays are such a strain." "There, there, dear." "Everything will work out just fine." "Mistress Parker, it's young Master Edmund." "He's approaching now." "Oh, it's Master Parker's son." "He home." "I thought you'd never get here." "Mother." "Mighty fine." "Let me look at you." "You're all right." "Sarah." "Oh, my God!" "Come here, honey." "ArabeIIa!" "Look how big you are." "Why, you's skinny as a tadpole's tail." "What they been feeding you up North?" "May." "May?" "What's this May?" "I was Mammy May to you." "Father." "How was your journey?" "It was most interesting, Father." "MarceIIus, I wish Invictus saddled." "Yes, sir." "If you're going riding, I'd Iike to accompany you." "Your long journey has not made you overly tired?" "certainly not, sir." "well, then." "Perhaps Harvard has made a man of you yet." "He's over in charleston now." "Oh, yeah?" "Get on." "My estate you cross." "What have we here?" "I am Hattie Carraway, in transit." "This black is an abolitionist..." "... convictedinabsentiaofsedition and incitement to insurrection." "I am a free man." "With a price on his head of $ 1 000." "From whom?" "Letters of introduction to facilitate a Iong passage to carolina." "Easy, boy." "Easy, boy." "But my men and I are tired from a good 25-miIe day." "I see you are in the charge of william Chichester." "I know him well as an honorable and noble man." "Your arduous journey must put you in the need of refreshment and ease." "Free man, are you?" "You don't look so." "Speak." "I am a free man of color." "I, too, have papers, here in my boot." "well, then." "We shall see them." "Papers of manumission." "I have been set free four years ago." "I have no master." "Mr. Moyer, you lost your freedom when you went into the sIave-freeing business." "You have come far and you have far to go." "You may provision and quarter at Granite Oaks..." "... extendingcourtesiesIwouldhave  in kind from Mr. Chichester." "I'm very grateful, sir." "Now, Mr. Stanton will look after you at your arrival." "Come, Edmund." "JubaI, move out." "Come on." "Hey, hey." "Whoa, now, horse." "Whoa." "Dr." "william ReynoIds." "Yes, sir, we've been expecting you." "Okay, I'II take these." "Show Dr. ReynoIds to his room." "jolly will see you to your quarters." "jolly." "jolly?" "I ain't too jolly myself." "I hope you don't mind my asking..." "... butthewayyou act , you be king of France?" "You must be the head nigger of this place." "Let me see." "That be the truth." "That sure be the truth, excepting our master, he think he can fly." "So, fiddler man, where did you and that young'un come from?" "Who you master be?" "Oh, we come from ReynoIds' plantation." "Dr." "reynolds be our master." "I gots no master." "No master except AIIah." "I comes from Omoro, a strong man." "And Binta, who give him strong sons, and we live down by the Kamby BoIongo." "Omoro comes from Yoboto Yaisa." "Her man, Kairaba Kunta Kinte." "He be a holy man." "Just like all the mens in my family..." "... frommany,manyrains, back to time begin." "always." "I gots kinfoIk who make they own village with the name Kinte." "Me, I comes from Juffure." "He African." "His feet be on the ground..." "... buthisheadstillbeup in themtrees they snatched him out of." "We's all African, fiddler." "I's a Mandinka warrior." "You a Virginia slave, boy." "well, I guess we best turn in." "Ain't no telling what them white folks gonna be making us doing." "Making merry Christmas for them." "Evening, gentlemen." "Evening." "Come on." "Come on, boy." "Look like this be our accommodations for the night." "Here, come on over here." "Get that blanket?" "I got a spot for you." "Get that." "Yeah, bring your blanket." "Get up here." "fiddler." "What?" "fiddler, I wanna be free again." "Now, look." "I think you better get them thoughts out your dumb African mind, you hear me?" "I knows where north be." "Knows where south, east and west be too." "And I hears things." "Hears folks be free up North." "White folks live mainly up there." "As long as that's so, ain't no nigger going be free." "I gots to be free again." "Gots to be." "A free man's alive, fiddler." "I been dead since I come here." "I'm tired of being dead, fiddler." "well, if you tired, rest." "I got to be in the main house soon..." "... andplaymy fiddle." "Get somerest ." "Come on, donkey." "Come on, move it." "Get up there, boy." "On your feet." "Get that man out." "Hey." "Watch out, you IittIe" "Hey!" "Kunta." "Kunta, no." "JubaI, that's enough." "I said, that's enough." "Get on your horse." "He's not our boy." "Let's move out." "Better calm that boy down." "Keep them moving." "well, I'm glad we could all get together." "well, Edmund, what news up North of these stormy affairs?" "well, I hear things are going badly for general Washington." "They're wintered down now." "But the British lost nearly a third of their officer corps at Bunker hill." "That's true, Father, but they have since gathered more men." "From where?" "There are Negro troops fighting for the British, you know." "For general Washington as well." "surely they are not armed?" "well, that's a frightening and disturbing thought." "Darkies with guns." "I tell you, Parker, just last week..." "... therewasan uprising on the Smith WaIton plantation." "Darkies killed the overseer." "Beat him to death." "Seventeen of them escaped." "Were any of them recaptured?" "Of course." "AII of them." "And all hanged too." "including a wench with child." "Quite a waste." "Were it my decision, I'd have waited until the wench dropped the child." "Then hung her." "Can I have a tobacco?" "Can we get some more of that?" "Need more?" "well... ." "These uprisings are a serious concern to us all." "We must be ever on our guard." "Pardon me, gentlemen." "I fear my long journey has somewhat wearied me." "I may have your permission, I will retire." "Father?" "well, then." "Good night, gentlemen." "Merry Christmas." "play, fiddler, play." "'Tis the Christmas season." "I wants to run." "Hurry up in there." "well, the Samaritan." "Get out of here and do as you're told." "You're a strong man, CIetus Moyer." "The chase was hard." "And the money is good." "And I'd let you go." "I don't give a fig or a damn about them." "They're all living in some make-beIieve dream." "planter aristocracy." "Come their revolution, I, for one, will see to it that the revolution..." "... willincludemore than they ever bargained for." "With a thousand like you, I couId cause quite a stir here and there." "What think you?" "You could help now." "Oh, I've thought of that, friend Moyer." "The smuggling of slaves to freedom, however exciting..." "... isnotnearlyaslucrativeaschasing them down and bringing them back." "There is more to life than financial gain." "You're a man, Moyer, and that's easy for you to say." "I chose adventure, and I pay my own way." "The alternative is up there, where I couId spend my Iife..." "... behinda flutteringfan,swooning..." "... nomorethanaconcubine." "Do you see me happy behind a fluttering fan, Mr. Moyer?" "The drinking gourd." "fiddler calls you the Big Dipper." "I knows you as CaIabash." "Whatever you called, you mean the same one thing:" "North." "Freedom." "Freedom." "Kunta will be free again." "He will." "Who are you?" "Kunta." "Kunta Kinte." "From Juffure." "They say you was a free man." "I was free." "I be free again." "Why are you here with me?" "There's no one wants to be around you." "They say you got the bad curse on you." "Maybe you're just a spy." "A spy." "Someone to try to get me tell you things." "No." "Never." "I hate the white toubob." "A man can never be too sure." "Treachery, cowardice, deceit comes in all colors." "A black man betrayed me once..." "... forthepriceofa jugofwhiskey." "What you think they going do with you?" "They will make a spectacle of me." "Then, if they are merciful, they will hang me." "I'd just as soon die than be a slave all life long." "Up North, where the war rages..." "... therearewhitefolkswhosay, "Live free or die. "" "White folks?" "White folks already is free." "By degrees." "Freedom..." "... myyoungAfricanfriend..." "... issomethingthatthe strongarealways willing and able to take from the weak." "Don't... ." "Don't hate toubob." "Among them are some friends." "Can you help me?" "Can you help me get free?" "I will give you a Christmas gift." "Live free..." "... ordie." "AII right, boy, get out of there." "Listen." "Listen quickly and well." "There's a cave near here." "I was supposed to meet a person there called Ciris." "Ciris?" "He must be told I have been captured." "I was to receive a map there and guide some runaways from there." "You must go there and tell Ciris he must get someone else." "I don't know my way around here." "Hey, I said, get out of there." "Find someone who does." "Now!" "He need us." "He need our help." "Now, I knows you know this place." "You brag how you know your way since you're free to roam with your fiddle." "What if I does?" "What if I does know?" "Then we gots to help, fiddler." "These people's counting on us." "Us?" "Us?" "What you always talking about us for?" "Look." "Kunta, I have got a good life here." "This is good as it's ever gonna get for me and you." "Now, we got a good master." "We got a good master and we got" "Nothing." "Nothing?" "That's right, nothing." "We ain't nothing but shadows, fiddler." "And free will keep a man alive, you hear?" "Give him reason to live." "Man got to have a reason to live, fiddler." "AII the work and sweat and pain gots to have a reason." "Your freedom this and your freedom that." "I don't know what you're talking about." "I do knows that they kill niggers for thinking it and I ain't never had it." "You best leave me alone, you hear?" "Leave me alone." "We gots to go to the big house." "The master want you." "darling." "That's it." "Ride your camels in, wise men." "Ride to the manger where Joseph and Mary have the baby Jesus." "There we go." "That's just lovely." "Look at all three of you." "Now... ." "Oh, no, camel." "camel, please." "Oh, dear." "I'd Iike you to stay like the others, the other camels." "I's no camel." "I shall speak with your master." "It was my understanding that he volunteered your services." "Of course you're not a camel." "What's your name?" "Kunta." "Kunta Kinte." "That's a nice name." "It's a African name." "I's African." "Do they have camels in Africa, Kunta Kinte?" "Maybe." "would you please be my camel, Kunta Kinte?" "I won't hurt you." "What you want me to do?" "Kunta." "Kunta, wait." "If we... ." "If we gets caught here with no papers, no nothing, there's all kind of trouble." "How far away is it?" "Over that little rise, down in the gully, there's a cave." "Kunta, Kunta." "What if master wanna see me now?" "He takes away my fiddle." "He beats me, they hang me, I" "Kunta, I'm sorry, I got to go back." "I got to go back." "Kunta." "To the Ieft, boy." "To the Ieft." "Ciris?" "Ciris." "halt." "Turn around." "You." "I know you." "You're the fiddle player." "You speak." "Oh, yeah." "We was just looking around, master." "We got lost, and we were looking, and we stumbled upon this place." "We best be going." "Ciris." "Ciris." "Shut up, boy." "Shut up." "Ciris." "I am Ciris." "I didn't know who I was supposed to meet." "We don't belong here." "I don't understand." "We ain't the people." "Yes, we is." "The Moyer man, he sent us." "They captured him." "Oh, my God." "Moyer's the one?" "I didn't know Moyer was my contact." "It was kept a secret." "What did he tell you?" "He said to come here and tell Ciris he got to find somebody else." "There may not be any escape now." "Moyer was to take this map." "It shows the safe spots along the way." "He was to lead slaves from six plantations to freedom." "A mass exodus on Christmas Eve." "Who's gonna do it now?" "fiddler." "He know his way around these parts." "He do it." "He do it instead of Moyer." "I got two slaves waiting to go from my father's plantation." "They're to meet two from the williams place who are on their way here now." "Someone must meet them." "At each stop along the way, you'II pick up more slaves." "When you get to the river, there will be a boat with blankets and food." "I have to go." "I've been gone too long already." "slaves from my father's plantation will be gathered in the cabin of nicholas..." "... atthesouthend oftheslave quarters." "Godspeed, men." "I'm an old man." "This ain't no kind of carryings-on for old men." "I can't be messing around with this runaway mess." "They's on their way here now, fiddler." "Didn't you hear that?" "These peoples is coming from who knows where to get here." "I can't help that." "I didn't ask them to come or go nowhere." "Here." "What kind of man is you, fiddler?" "She thought she looked so pretty too." "Oh, sure." "Oh, and he is so handsome." "He growed into a fine young man, Miss AmeIia." "So fast." "The master thinks... ." "well, this may be a bit premature, but he is to be granted a commission..." "... ingeneralWashington'sarmy." "My little boy." "The British asking for trouble, messing with them Parker mens." "Oh, I do hope Edmund can stay out of the violence." "He be a little on the weak side at times..." "... butI believeshe 'sstrongontheinside, where it counts." "ArabeIIa." "What are you doing in here?" "Nothing, uncle Edmund." "What are you hiding?" "Nothing, I was just... ." "well, you got something back there." "It's all right." "What's the matter, did you break something?" "It's all right, it can't be that bad." "Let's see." "I'm sorry." "Do you understand what any of this is?" "Yes, sir." "Not all of it, but some." "well, what?" "That it's wrong to treat the slaves so mean, and what we do to them is cruel." "uncle Edmund, if it's so mean, then why do we do it?" "Because we must, dear." "Mother." "Now, run along and find Mammy May." "Come on, sweetheart." "Yes, Grandmother." "Good girl." "If these seditious, vile lies were to be found in this house... ." "vile?" "Lies?" "We treat them well, Edmund." "Oh, Mother, we treat them like faithful dogs." "Sometimes, son, I have the same doubts and questions as you." "But then I think, this is as things must be." "We are... ." "They are different." "You know how I feel about Mammy May." "But can you honestly tell me that you see us as the same?" "How would you feel if you were forced to act as a camel?" "Or mule or a horse?" "I did not create the system, Edmund, but I Iive within it, as do you." "And you must end this insanity before you endanger us all." "especially your father." "You could ruin him." "My father would be ruined by extending humanity to human beings?" "They are not" "I must speak to your father about these." "Then I'm done here if you do." "So are we all if I don't." "I... ." "I will wait until after the celebration before I say anything." "By then, and I pray it will be so..." "... youmayrethinkyourposition." "Everybody, now, y'aII go on out." "Come on, now." "Let's go." "Come on." "You kids there." "Come on back over here, now." "Come on." "Mama." "Everybody come on out." "Master Parker wants to talk to you." "hold my hand, girl." "We coming." "Levi?" "Jesse?" "Come on, now." "Y'aII come on." "Be there in a minute." "Come on, now, step lively." "Master Parker wants to talk to you, come on." "That's heavy for you there." "Duda May, bring them young'uns." "Simon, get on over here, now." "Did you hear what he said?" "Gather round, now." "I'm coming." "I know." "Oh, no." "Pay attention." "AII right, now, Iet's all just be quiet here for just a minute." "This is Reverend miller from over in ConviIIe." "Now, he gonna be talking to us for just a moment." "I'd Iike for you to give him... ." "I'm gonna show you how to get them williams slaves back here..." "... totheNichoIascabin,butthat'sit." "That white boy can lead them runaways by himself." "He can't." "You knows it." "williams slaves will run as soon as they see him." "Yeah, well, a live nigger better than a dead hero." "I bring them back from the cave to here." "Then I'm going with them." "Kunta, why you do that to me?" "I ain't doing nothing to you, fiddler." "The Moyer man, he give us a gift." "Freedom." "Freedom?" "That's something make a man wanna risk his life for?" "fiddler, it's... ." "It's a chance to be who you was born to be." "And you don't have to ask no white man or nobody for nothing." "I'm old." "Everything I got, I had to ask the white man for it." "You reckon that this freedom something I can learn?" "Why don't we go and see?" "Oh, no." "I'm going, fiddler." "fiddler, I'm going, and I want you to come with me." "fiddler, I want you" "No, no, no." "I loves you, fiddler." "I just wants you to be happy." "God help you, boy." "But it will offend God almighty." "Consider not that it is the people who own you..." "... butitis thewillofGodwhohath, by his providence, made you servants..." "... becauseheknew that was the best condition for you..." "... inthisworld." "Now, Iet us bow our heads in prayer." "Merry Christmas." "Thank you, sir." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "Thank you, master." "Merry Christmas." "Who is it, Mommy?" "Thank you, Master Parker." "MarceIIus?" "Yes, missy?" "I wish to give this to Kunta." "Kunta, Missy bella?" "Dr. ReynoIds' darkie." "He's my camel and I wanna give him a gift." "Yes, missy." "Come with me." "Is there a Kunta in there?" "Who wanna know?" "The king of France." "Where is Kunta?" "He could be anywhere near abouts." "He my friend, he ain't my slave." "I don't keep no watch on him." "Mistress ArabeIIa wishes to give him a gift." "Bring him directly to the house." "He will be there when the time comes." "He missy's camel." "Sure he don't wanna miss that." "I wanted him to have this present first, before the pageant." "That way, he won't be too tired to be my camel." "And I wanted to tell him I won't Iash him with the crop again." "I know he's not an animal and shouldn't be treated as such." "I wanted to give it to him myself." "But you will please do it for me?" "Oh, yes, ma'am." "And tell Kunta I'II see him at the pageant." "Oh, Kunta... ." "Where is you, boy?" "On your bad business." "Bad business." "I heard the whole plantation was closing down." "They're still trying to clear the fire damage." "Oh, yeah." "Kunta told me about you." "The message got through." "That Mr. Ciris." "He know you chained up." "Who will lead them out?" "tell me..." "... howitbe thatamanlikeyou be set free..." "... andthencomebackhere  and give it away?" "Now, I don't understand freedom, but I sure don't understand giving it away." "Who will lead them out?" "AII of them on their way now will die." "And so on at each place, Iike rotten fruit on the vine..." "... fortheyareall waitingtobe ledout." "AII my Iife, I been a slave." "Day after day, year follow year." "I eats when the master feed me." "I sleep when the master allow me." "I works all the time." "I don't know how to be what you ask." "I don't know how to be no free nigger." "No, I don't know how." "Yes." "I'm sorry." "hold my horse, boy." "Mr. Parker." "Mr. Parker!" "Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker, uprising." "revolt." "Everyone." "The darkies have broke out Richmond way, they're armed with sickles." "White men have been killed and they're headed this way." "Women and children upstairs." "gentlemen, to arms." "To arms." "Everybody upstairs." "Let's go, Iet's go." "Let's go, ladies." "hold it." "hold it, hold it." "Miss AmeIia?" "I got some." "Come on." "Y'aII be safe here till it's time to run." "Let's break them down here." "Somebody get upstairs with the women." "We ought to hang these darkies." "Every darkie we catch will be lynched." "We're not gonna let them take over." "I'm ready for them." "They'II get a surprise when they come out here." "We'II take these men and surround the house." "Sir, may I ask--?" "Get the rest of the servants assembled on the floor immediately." "Yes, sir." "tell Miss Carraway we shall need her men." "Come on." "AII right." "Watch me." "You are to obey your father." "Come on, now, Iet's move it." "Move it up, now." "Come on now, Iet's move it." "Come on, now, Iet's move it." "Move it up, now." "Get up, you drunken pig." "JubaI, there's been a revolt." "Remove Mr. Moyer from his bunker, collect the rest from their quarters." "I'm required at the main house." "Now!" "You get Moyer." "The rest, come with me." "AII right, everybody." "Let's go." "Get them out." "Come on." "Move, move." "Go on, get on out here." "Get them coIoreds out of here." "Let's go, this way." "Let's go." "Come on." "Get out of the cabin." "Let's go." "Let's get them coIoreds out." "Get down." "Is that everybody out of the barn?" "Put your heads down." "Put your heads down." "Let's go, Iet's go." "Kunta, where is you, boy?" "Hey, JubaI, looks like we got a couple runaways here." "Let's string them up with Moyer." "Get your head down, boy." "That look like everybody." "You boys ain't nothing." "Get your heads down." "Darkies, slaves." "Understand that?" "Put your head down." "Come on, boy." "Get down over there." "Everybody up." "Everybody, get up, now." "Let's go, Iet's go!" "Now, what you darkies need is a good example." "Or else we're in constant danger." "Move them out." "Let's go, Iet's go." "Come on." "Move it." "Move it." "Come on, come on, move it." "Come on." "Get going, now." "Let's move it, darkie." "Freedom!" "Oh, my God." "Hey, fiddler." "You back." "After they hung those two slaves from the williams plantation..." "... Icouldn'tlooknomore ." "It's time to be moving on, fiddler." "You coming with us or no?" "fiddler, you hear me?" "We gots to go." "Father... ." "We must cut them down." "You can't just leave them there." "They shall remain there as an example to the others..." "... thatwewillnot tolerateinsurrection." "In case our slaves have any doubt, Iet them be reminded..." "... ofthepenaltyfor escape." "Father, they all saw what happened." "They're not likely to forget." "It seems pointless to leave them" "What kind of a son have I raised?" "Why should it matter to you how long three niggers..." "... threeIawbreakers,hangina tree ?" "I have not heard one word of concern from you about your mother..." "... yoursister,yourniece,your property, in the face of a nigger uprising." "There could be hordes of armed savages headed this way now..." "... andyourconcernisforthem?" "!" "Get out of my sight!" "Don't present yourself until you're able to do so as the man my son should be." "We can't leave that man hanging like that out there." "Not no good, strong as he is." "Can't leave him hanging out there, dying like a slave." "fiddler, we cut them down." "AII right, Kunta." "AII right." "I'II lead the way." "fiddler going lead the way." "fiddler, there's a guard change." "fiddler, we go." "Come on." "There ain't nothing we can do for him now, come on." "Come on, fiddler." "Come on, now." "Go." "Mighty hard for a pregnant woman." "It's gonna be fine." "That woman be able?" "She be all right, fiddler." "We got to move." "We got many more miles to get to this mark here." "Come on." "Let's go." "What's that Moyer man say you says?" "That we is friends of friends." "well, you best go try it." "Who goes?" "Friend of friends." "Friend of friends." "Y'aII come out, now." "Let's go." "We still got a day before we get to the river." "The slave Toby and one fiddler and two of ours are gone..." "... lillyandnicholas." "We'II follow soon." "Yes, sir." "Come on." "AII right, you heard him." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, now." "MarceIIus, saddle my horse." "Yes, sir." "Come on." "Come on." "Oh, lilly feeling awful bad, fiddler." "Hush." "Hush, everybody." "We can't stop now." "Either we stay here and die, or we gets us some freedom." "We going follow the drinking gourd to the land of Canaan." "And this boy's gonna get back home to the Kamby BoIongo where he belong." "Oh, God, I ain't never been so happy in all my Iife." "This is Christmas, y'aII." "Christmas Eve." "Now, Christmas be about giving." "And fiddler never be so happy to give somebody some freedom today." "Now, come on." "Get up, Iet's go." "Come on." "Come on, Iet's go." "We gotta go." "Come on, y'aII." "Come on, stay together." "Keep going." "Come on, hold on." "Come on." "Easy, boy." "Y'aII seen a black man riding through these parts along that way?" "No, ma'am." "You sure about that, son?" "No, ma'am." "I ain't seen nobody" "You damn well better be." "Or I'II be back." "Yes, ma'am." "Let's move." "Come on." "Come on, you, you, come on." "Quick." "Go." "Come on." "Come on, quick." "We gotta beat them dogs." "Hurry up, now." "Quick." "AII right, we gonna stop here." "Everybody rest." "I think I knows about where we be." "Oh, we ain't going be safe till nightfall." "How that woman be?" "She fine." "I'm gonna be the most best fiddler in the Promised Land." "Kunta, what you think you be when you get away?" "I dreams about it all the time." "When I's free, I goes back across the big river." "And I walks into Juffure..." "... toseemy mamasmile." "Come on." "Come on." "Keep moving." "I think we pretty close to the river, but I ain't so sure." "I ain't been this far." "Let's try here." "Yes." "AII right, now." "Yeah." "It's here, y'aII." "It's here." "Come on." "What's wrong?" "It's a baby girl." "It's a little baby girl." "Smack her." "What?" "Hand me your knife." "Now, Kunta, you go find a flat rock so we can push in the bellybutton." "It's gonna be a different life for her, Nick." "It's gonna be a different life for all of us, lilly." "It's gonna be a better one." "Now, we gonna have to move fast." "You carry the baby." "You and me, we gonna have to help carry lilly." "Come on." "AII right, now." "Come on, now." "behold the only thing greater than yourself." "Come on, fiddler." "One more, one more." "I can only take one more." "Any more than that and this old wreck'II break apart and we all be dead." "I'm sorry." "Just one of you." "And you got to move fast, because it's getting light out." "They gotta come." "You gotta let them come." "Go on." "I knowed I was too old for this runaway mess." "You go ahead on, Kunta." "You gonna be free again." "I'II lead the dogs upriver so the boat can get away." "Now, go ahead." "Didn't I say--?" "Go on." "Didn't I say I'd take care of you?" "Didn't I say you and me?" "I'm a Mandinka warrior." "And a warrior don't lie." "We go next time." "Go ahead." "Go." "Go, go, go." "Come on, row." "Come on." "Easy, boy." "AII right, get that horse some water." "Tracks are covered already." "The dogs can't smell a thing." "We can keep on to the river, hopes of getting lucky." "But I don't hold much chance of finding them." "I say we head back, spare the dogs and horses this cold." "You are a fool, JubaI." "We need the money, remember?" "Now, you cost me $ 1 000 when you Iynched Moyer..." "... andwegotnothingforthisjourney." "We will go on." "Now, mount up." "saddle up." "Let's go." "Move it out." "Here we go." "Come on." "Let's go." "Kunta?" "What it be like right now on the Kamby BoIongo?" "I be sitting under the baobab tree." "The sun shining on my face." "The smell of cooking fires from the village." "I'II stay." "Next time the boat come, I might go all the way to Africa with you." "Lord." "You scare me half to death." "Why you here?" "I've been checking the stop points, making sure everything went well." "What happened?" "Where are the others?" "They gone." "Boat come, just like the plan say." "peoples get on it just fine." "well, I don't understand." "Why aren't you with them?" "Wasn't no more room in the boat." "No more room." "I'm sorry." "Wasn't your fault." "still, I" "Carraway." "Dogs must have picked up your scent." "I'II lead them off." "It's too late." "Hey, get him." "well, young Mr. Parker." "careful with that." "I see you've saved me half a day's work." "And I'm grateful, sir." "But now, if you will kindly move aside, JubaI will take care of them." "I've seen how JubaI takes care of things, Miss Carraway." "I'II not stand for any more of that." "I found these two, and I'II return them." "That way, I'm sure they get back alive." "I was hired, sir, to return these people to your father." "There is a respectable fee awaiting me upon my return." "I cannot..." "... Iwillnot,justride offandleavethem." "Am I clear to you?" "You watch him, JubaI." "You might try talking to the lady in a language she understand, sir." "Money, sir." "Money." "In my satchel, madam, there's money." "Coins and bills." "More than enough to pay for your bounty." "Take it and be off." "You'II not get possession of these two." "Go on, JubaI." "AII right." "Very well, then, sir." "You have dispensed with me fairly." "Come on." "You must return to the plantation immediately." "You can't stay out here." "You'II freeze or starve to death waiting." "Won't be another boat till spring." "Go back." "I'II divert my father and your Dr. ReynoIds, buy you some time." "You'II have to think of some explanation for your absence." "Hurry." "I'm sorry." "I truly am." "Wish I couId have done more." "You already done more than most, and we truly grateful." "Here are your brave African and your talented fiddler." "They didn't run, they hid." "Merry Christmas, Master ReynoIds." "Get them out of there." "I'II take care of it, Father." "They're ReynoIds' problem." "Get them out of my sight." "Come on, you swine." "Out!" "Out!" "Thank you, young Master Parker, but you ain't got to call me no swine." "The day will come, fiddler, Kunta..." "... whennoman will call another man master." "There'II be no master but God." "allah." "Perhaps." "If the boat made it safely to the other side, there'II be a signal from that hill." "Keep your eye on that hill." "I can't stay long here." "I'm more useful elsewhere." "Stay strong, my friends." "Your freedom will come." "Merry Christmas." "Ain't no signal, fiddler." "Think the Lord done forgot us on his birthday?" "well, some say Lord God don't forget nobody." "That Christmas be about loving..." "... andaboutgivingand sharing." "fiddler, there it is." "The light." "You see it?" "Lord God almighty." "They made it." "They made it." "They free, fiddler." "They free." "subtitles by SDI Media Group" "[ENGLISH]"