12 Years a Slave2013
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Rating: R (Restricted)
Runtime: 134 minutes
Patsey:
I went to Massa Shaw's plantation!
Edwin Epps:
Ya admit it.
Patsey:
Freely. And you know why? [she produces a piece of soap from the pocket of her dress] I got this from Mistress Shaw. Mistress Epps won't even grant me no soap ta clean with. Stink so much I make myself gag. Five hundred pounds 'a cotton day in, day out. More than any man here. And 'fo that I will be clean; that all I ax. Dis here what I went to Shaw's 'fo.
Edwin Epps:
You lie...
Patsey:
The Lord knows that's all.
Edwin Epps:
You lie!
Patsey:
And you blind wit yer own covetousness. I don't lie, Massa. If you kill me, I'll stick ta that.
Edwin Epps:
I'll learn you to go to Shaw's. Treach, go get some line.
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