The Man Who Came Back
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- Year:
- 2008
- 112 min
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What are y'all doing?
Get back in the field.
Slavery's over.
We can leave if we want.
Mr. Duke, you think them Union
soldiers come back
if they hear tell of
black folks gettin' stopped?
Well, maybe you can go,
but you sure as hell ain't
takin' one of my mules.
This here my mule,
Mr. Duke.
You, uh,
made my buy him.
Deducted from my pay.
Well, in that case,
your animal is looking at me funny,
like he wants to
bite me.
Bite?
He barely got no teeth.
That's why you made
Winton buy him.
There. Now you can carry
your own stuff to Kansas.
Oh no no no no.
We got rights!
Hold my horse.
- Take it!
- You ain't got no cause, Mr. Billy!
We been free
Ever heard of a little struggle
called the Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation
ever go by your ear?
How about this?
Did it ever
pass your ears?
You're just opening
old wounds.
Now you turn 'em over
so it browns on
both sides, you see?
You remember what I told you
about the onions?
Mr. Reese?
Mr. Reese?
There.
Turn around.
Did he do this?
Junebug got
the worst of it.
Next time,
I don't know.
Ain't gonna be
a next time.
- Sir.
- 'Morning.
a Confederate war hero,
onto my plantation,
you didn't present yourself
as Negro-soft.
You hired me to
oversee the hands.
If Billy lays on
the whip again,
he's gonna have to
deal with me.
Reese,
he's my blood son.
Then you warn him.
Warn who?
About what?
Daddy,
look at that.
That is my idea.
Right, Daddy?
You know the hands want
to be paid in cash.
No, you're paid in cash
'cause you're a white man.
Here's your month's pay.
Go make sure to buy your wife
something pretty.
This means trouble.
I tell you one thing:
Once the crop's in,
we'll say "Fare thee well, Mr. Duke,"
and we'll set up housekeeping
wherever your pretty heart desires...
California, Timbuktu,
I don't care.
I would just prefer
our cabin by the swamp.
Why'd you choose me
anyway?
I was old and poor
and beaten down
even before the war.
Mm-hmm.
I adore you.
Just adore you.
- 'Morning to you all.
- 'Morning.
- Good morning, sir.
- 'Morning.
Cash is kind of short
since the war, Winton.
Short for the Negro?
Still spends like money.
Not anymore.
They done raised all
the store prices.
Mm-hmm. How much?
So you pay them funny money
they can only spend here,
then you double and
triple the prices?
Uh, Reese, that's just
sound business practice.
Taking advantage of
a captive market.
Wanna hit me?
Hmm?
You're fired.
I knew guys like you
during the war.
When the battle started,
you'd hide.
When the fighting stopped,
you came out.
And you bayoneted
the wounded,
then you bragged about
how many Yankees you killed.
You coward.
Get up.
You want me to
arrest him?
No, just throw
his ungrateful ass
out of my overseer's
house.
once he can't feed his family.
Y'all listen up!
From now on, I'll be
supervising y'all directly,
you lazy Negros!
I'll be working you
can to can't...
when you can see in the morning to
when you can't see at night.
You hear me?
No, sir.
I'm on strike.
We on strike.
What you mean,
you're on strike?
You don't even know
what a strike is!
Yes, we do.
And you about to find out
what one is too, sir.
What do you coloreds
expect to achieve?
You already got freedom.
Freedom?
Well, it sure don't feel like
no freedom, Judge Duke,
not when your son can
beat us whenever he pleases,
then pay us in
worthless paper.
Right!
You don't work,
you don't eat.
You don't get no rations.
What are you gonna eat?
Mule meat make a fine stew.
Sure made a mess of things
this time, Billy.
Ho! Ho!
I want to go.
My wife at a planter's meeting?
You can't.
Then give me
some money then.
You never buy anything.
This time,
spend what I give you.
You can afford to
buy you a pretty thing.
Oh, you go see to
men's business
and leave it to your wife
how frivolous to be.
In the olden days, when the heathens
took over the Promised Land,
the Crusaders wore a big
cross on themselves...
Judge, please,
they were knights
on a war horse.
out of those infidels.
All right, shut your fans.
Let the judge talk now.
There is no way
we can negotiate
with the strikers.
They're demanding that we
work them no more
than 12 hours a day.
And no work at all
on Sunday.
Now what's next?
Christmas in July?
Is that all right
with you, Sheriff?
No, sir!
That all right with you?
- No! No!
- No!
Your Honor, uh, we could
and fix this real fast.
We all got some Negro-lovin'
white folks
could use
a head-whopping too.
This is not as big a cabin
as you're used to, my boy.
- What've you got there?
- Oh, this is heavy.
Oh, give me that.
Give it here.
- There we go.
- Thank you.
You want some water?
Here.
Darlin', heaven's
where you make it.
They ran us out.
Said if we won't chop cotton,
we can't stay in them quarters.
Them cabins weren't fit
for living in no-how.
Besides, back in
slavery days,
the runaway slaves used to hide
in these thickets and get fat.
- Ain't that right, y'all?
- Yeah.
We gonna be all right.
We gonna be
all right.
- Ain't that right, y'all?
- Yes, sir.
Whoa. Whoa.
This your wife and
boy here?
Just on patrol.
Don't want no trouble.
- Let's go.
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