Yeah. They called me Captain Strike Down. There was a time when I was right proud of that...
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Hamish Bond:
I was in the nigger business. I was in it in a large way, if I may say so without pompous boasting. Amantha Starr:
You mean the slave trade? Hamish Bond:
Yeah. They called me Captain Strike Down. There was a time when I was right proud of that name. Well, a man has to be proud of something. But don't get the idea that it was all white man's wickedness. My chief partner was Old Gezo, a black king who drank rum out of gold-mounted skulls while the buzzards sat around waiting for him to start to slaughter
I was in the nigger business. I was in it in a large way, if I may say so without pompous boasting. Amantha Starr:
You mean the slave trade? Hamish Bond:
Yeah. They called me Captain Strike Down. There was a time when I was right proud of that name. Well, a man has to be proud of something. But don't get the idea that it was all white man's wickedness. My chief partner was Old Gezo, a black king who drank rum out of gold-mounted skulls while the buzzards sat around waiting for him to start to slaughter
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I was in the nigger business
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I was in it in a large way
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if I may say so without pompous boasting
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You mean the slave trade
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Yeah
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They called me captain strike down
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There was a time when I was right proud of that name
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Well a man has to be proud of something
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But don't get the idea that it was all white man's wickedness
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My chief partner was old Geezo
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a black king who drank rum out of gold mounted skulls
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while the buzzards sat around
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waiting for him to start the slaughter
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Movie Summary
Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.
Actors
Hamish Bond
Amantha Starr
