I was in the nigger business. I was in it in a large way, if I may say so without pompous...
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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.
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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
Clip duration: 56 seconds
Views: 319
Timestamp in movie: 01h 26m 01s
Uploaded: 27 November, 2022
Genres: drama
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.
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00:14 Wherever you go I don't want to know
00:13 Mm hmm She growing up
00:10 Doesn't she play divinely
00:19 There is the unsullied happiness of virtue and good works
00:12 Truth gives pain sometimes
00:29 I declare to you sir my burning belief
00:11 Some music lifts the soul
00:20 If massa Aaron finds out
00:52 I can't say I like what I got to do
00:09 My dear Amantha
00:15 Mr Aaron Starr was the fine gentleman
00:29 Here we are
00:22 Please Mr Calloway She ain't no negro
00:13 I brung you a present
00:15 Hey you sure are put together real nice ain't you
00:15 Now you settle down
00:24 Why you ornery little she cat
00:43 I'll take my hand off your mouth
00:25 Some fella buy you
00:26 Might as well get used to it