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Are you taking that boy? Or is that boy taking you? Why, I'm taking him. We is just passing through from Palmyra, and we heard all the gun shooting, so I drug him around this way. [man] What are you? You part-colored or white girl with a dirty face? The best part of me is nearly as white as you, sir. But I just don't know where I belongs, being a tragic mulatto and all. [sniffling] [man] Yeah
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Are you taking that boy?
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Or is that boy taking you?
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Why, I'm taking him.
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We is just passing
through from Palmyra,
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and we heard
all the gun shooting,
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so I drug him around this way.
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[man]
What are you?
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You part-colored or white girl
with a dirty face?
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The best part of me
is nearly as white as you, sir.
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But I just don't know
where I belongs,
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being a tragic mulatto and all.
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[sniffling]
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[man]
Yeah.
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Movie Summary
Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel. "Onion" is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Brown's family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry.