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The Long Song

Plantation slaves can't read

Plantation slaves can't read

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Plantation slaves can't read.
Duration
4 seconds
Views
26
Timestamp in Movie
00:14:32
Uploaded
Jun 24, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
Genres
drama
Production
First Films

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Movie Summary

An adaptation of the award-winning novel by Andrea Levy. Set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica, following the trials, tribulations and survival of July and her odious mistress Caroline on a sugar plantation.
S01 • E03 What if...? - The Long Song 00:05
What if...?
S01 • E01 Now, the tallow candles be one shilling and one penny for the box. - The Long Song 00:05
Now, the tallow candles be one shilling and one penny for th...
S01 • E02 Good day, Miss July. Are you on an errand for your mistress? - The Long Song 00:04
Good day, Miss July. Are you on an errand for your mistress?
S01 • E01 Tallow? Do you expect this room to smell like an abattoir? - The Long Song 00:05
Tallow? Do you expect this room to smell like an abattoir?
S01 • E03 Would you come up and sit with me? - The Long Song 00:05
Would you come up and sit with me?
S01 • E01 Then it's six shillings and eight pennies for a box. - The Long Song 00:05
Then it's six shillings and eight pennies for a box.
S01 • E03 Me must look after me pickney. - The Long Song 00:05
Me must look after me pickney.
S01 • E01 It is not that the candles be expensive, Missus, - The Long Song 00:06
It is not that the candles be expensive, Missus,
S01 • E03 You may, you may bring the child. - The Long Song 00:04
You may, you may bring the child.
S01 • E01 Just get me a good price for them, boy, or I will have you whipped. - The Long Song 00:06
Just get me a good price for them, boy, or I will have you w...
S01 • E02 From up high in the front of that fine carriage, - The Long Song 00:10
From up high in the front of that fine carriage,
S01 • E01 That will impress Elizabeth Wyndham. - The Long Song 00:05
That will impress Elizabeth Wyndham.
S01 • E03 He's tried so hard, he's done everything he could. - The Long Song 00:04
He's tried so hard, he's done everything he could.
S01 • E03 If these abolitionists in England had actually lived with slaves, - The Long Song 00:10
If these abolitionists in England had actually lived with sl...
S01 • E02 And she found herself thinking - The Long Song 00:09
And she found herself thinking
S01 • E03 I've been here before. I know how this happens. - The Long Song 00:05
I've been here before. I know how this happens.
S01 • E01 Hurry up, now. We have plenty work here, you know. - The Long Song 00:05
Hurry up, now. We have plenty work here, you know.
S01 • E01 I'm fed up with these people. Making me do this, do that, like I - The Long Song 00:06
I'm fed up with these people. Making me do this, do tha...
S01 • E01 Seven people never going to eat all of these dead creature - The Long Song 00:05
Seven people never going to eat all of these dead creature
S01 • E01 The mango woman say, one day soon we all be free. - The Long Song 00:04
The mango woman say, one day soon we all be free.