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My answer to you is you better not educate any more Black folks or they might read the Declaration of Independence as I have done. [mayor] For Christ's sake, Copeland, your parents paid good money to this Boston lawyer! Come out here before we all get killed! I prefer to stand my trial here, Mayor. Let me explain something to you, Copeland. This country was made by white men for white men. You colored are not free... -[clicks tongue] -...because you're better off -under our care. -[gun clicks] If you think-- -[gunshot] -[grunts] -[shouting] -[gunfire] [woman screaming] Jesus-- [shouting, wailing]
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My answer to you
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is you better not educate
any more Black folks
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or they might read
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the Declaration of Independence
as I have done.
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[mayor]
For Christ's sake, Copeland,
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your parents paid good money
to this Boston lawyer!
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Come out here
before we all get killed!
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I prefer to stand
my trial here, Mayor.
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Let me explain something
to you, Copeland.
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This country
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was made by white men
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for white men.
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You colored are not free...
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-[clicks tongue]
-...because you're better off
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-under our care.
-[gun clicks]
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If you think--
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-[gunshot]
-[grunts]
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-[shouting]
-[gunfire]
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[woman screaming]
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Jesus--
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[shouting, wailing]
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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.