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Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.08,0:00:04.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.100,0:00:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory fanfare music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.00,0:00:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.02,0:00:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(bell ringing) (rumbling)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.02,0:00:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Why you!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.03,0:01:03.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(frolicking music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.82,0:01:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey, have you seen a little boy, with height like this
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.96,0:01:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an apple?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.94,0:01:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yeah, over there lad.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.78,0:01:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Wait here, ah!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.68,0:01:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There you are you little blimer!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.37,0:01:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.88,0:01:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hold on a moment, what is going on here?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.68,0:02:03.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Much obliged Pastor Newton, now if you'll just hold him,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.28,0:02:05.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll give him the caning he deserves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.27,0:02:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- As a point of personal privilege sir, no one shall
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.80,0:02:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be whipped in my presence.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.53,0:02:11.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Then you deal with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.05,0:02:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What has he done wrong?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.98,0:02:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Sir, fighting with the other boys, disobedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.53,0:02:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,swearing, he tipped over me stall.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.81,0:02:20.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh sir, he's a bad seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.60,0:02:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- These are serious charges.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.94,0:02:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm serious sir, please stand back and let me give
Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.81,0:02:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,him the caning he deserves.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.96,0:02:33.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Not in my presence Mr. Chapman.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.86,0:02:37.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Fine, he's your problem, you deal with him!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.47,0:02:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mumbling), ha.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.61,0:02:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Thank you sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.19,0:02:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Fighting eh, swearing, these are serious charges.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.86,0:02:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're Ms. Watson's oldest aren't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.98,0:02:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, she's me stepmom.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.94,0:03:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hmm, well I was about to go inside for a spot of tea,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.99,0:03:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would you like to join me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.50,0:03:06.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Might there be any biscuits?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.98,0:03:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well there might be, let's go see.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.54,0:03:12.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.30,0:03:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, fighting and swearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.92,0:03:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You wouldn't understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.39,0:03:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Newton] No?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.23,0:03:50.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How could you, you're the parson and all.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:50.12,0:03:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I think I might understand much better than you think.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.42,0:03:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was once a little boy myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.75,0:03:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think by the time I was your age I had been expelled
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.68,0:04:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from two different schools for fighting and swearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.89,0:04:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You, never!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.97,0:04:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hmm, yes I wasn't always a church parson you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.26,0:04:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact I've been a great many different things in life.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.85,0:04:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've probably done things far worse than fighting
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.13,0:04:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and swearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.52,0:04:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Like what?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.32,0:04:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well I was a cabin boy on a ship, I was a ship's captain
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.74,0:04:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later on, I was even a slave for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.87,0:04:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Nah sir, you're leading me on!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.81,0:04:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No I'm not, would you like to hear a little of my story?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.93,0:04:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well, are there more biscuits?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.80,0:04:38.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hah, there might be, yes, and more tea as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.15,0:04:40.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course it was all a very long time ago you understand,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.52,0:04:44.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but, I don't think that little boys have really changed
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.05,0:04:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that much do you?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.57,0:04:49.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember my dear mother as if it were only
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.73,0:04:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few weeks ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.14,0:04:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She taught me to pray, she taught me to read
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.79,0:04:58.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by reading me the Scriptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.84,0:05:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She died when I was only six.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.42,0:05:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My father was a merchant seaman, a captain.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.20,0:05:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I'm sure that he loved me in his own way,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.72,0:05:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't recall ever feeling loved by him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.87,0:05:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He soon remarried a beautiful young woman
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.98,0:05:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who bore him other children.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.57,0:05:23.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She wasn't terribly interested in me and so
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.86,0:05:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was away at sea and I ended up in boarding school,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.61,0:05:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it wasn't long before I was expelled from that school
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.61,0:05:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the same sort of trouble you've been in.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.68,0:05:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do you mean fighting?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.82,0:05:36.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye and general disobedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.81,0:05:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was young I had this hot core of anger inside of me
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.10,0:05:42.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that burned all the time, and it was out of control,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.80,0:05:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I couldn't control my actions always.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.37,0:05:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.20,0:05:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You do understand, don't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.82,0:05:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't long before I was expelled from the next school
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.40,0:05:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the same thing and my father decided that the only
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.48,0:05:57.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing to be done was to take me to sea and so I went
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.56,0:05:59.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a ship with him when I was 11.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.82,0:06:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.47,0:06:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We served as cabin boys, carrying and cleaning
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.18,0:06:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and doing whatever any grownup sailor wanted done.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.34,0:06:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that burning core of anger was still inside me,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.74,0:06:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when it would burn, I would always end up in trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.48,0:06:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- There, suck on that young master Newton,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.57,0:06:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe you'll think twice about slinging blasphemies
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.75,0:06:31.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around in me galley.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.91,0:06:34.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Newton] I took my anger out on the other boys, the ones
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.20,0:06:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were smaller than I, and ended up in trouble again.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.19,0:06:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in spite of the trouble I got into,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.93,0:06:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew into a man aboard merchant ships, and I became
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.62,0:06:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an able-bodied seaman.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.48,0:06:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ship leaves next Wednesday for Jamaica, we can use you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.97,0:06:56.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you'll sign on.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.40,0:06:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir, I will, I'll be visiting in Kent for a few days
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.41,0:07:02.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I can be back for Wednesday.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.24,0:07:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Little did I know how those few days in Kent
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.60,0:07:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would affect the rest of my life, for it was there,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.42,0:07:11.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,staying with friends of my mother, that I met
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.97,0:07:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the love of my life, my Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.41,0:07:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her name was Mary, Mary Catlett, and almost from
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.18,0:07:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first time I saw her, my heart was a captive.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.23,0:07:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My secret nickname for her was Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.56,0:07:30.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My dear Polly, my beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.66,0:07:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a little younger than I, and her beautiful smile
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.20,0:07:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,melted my heart and made a permanent mark upon my soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.42,0:07:53.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton, I shall speak plainly, we loved your
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.57,0:07:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dear mother and held her in the highest regard,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.16,0:08:01.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mary is too young yet for any decision, but her father
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.09,0:08:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I do not object to an understanding provided--
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.67,0:08:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.75,0:08:08.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Provided that when you return from your voyages
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.65,0:08:12.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will see some signs of stability and of prospect.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.29,0:08:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Prospect?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.60,0:08:17.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Prospect for a living Mr. Newton is of great importance.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.32,0:08:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes, I shall keep that in mind Mrs. Catlett,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.90,0:08:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I shall return.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.14,0:08:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(frolicking music)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.59,0:08:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I went back to sea with a goal in mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.74,0:08:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make my way, to find advancement, to make my fortune,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.01,0:08:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that I could return and marry my dear Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.54,0:08:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(bell ringing)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.56,0:08:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beautiful memory of her smile, of her sweet face,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.42,0:08:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got me through many long watches and lonely nights at sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.14,0:08:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even the memory of her smile could not
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.35,0:09:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep me from trouble, that hot anger burned inside me still
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.22,0:09:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and would boil over at times.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.39,0:09:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music) (groaning)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.86,0:09:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Send him to the surgery.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.69,0:09:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you, you're on report, reduced rations for a week.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.86,0:09:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Newton] And of course I was a seaman at sea, no different
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.28,0:09:24.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from any other, when it poured I joined heartily
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.11,0:09:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the sins that waited any sailor.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.10,0:09:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh! (chattering)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.03,0:09:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Newton] But not all temptations were in port.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.20,0:09:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah you're a fool if you believe all that blatter.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.33,0:09:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this can be explained by reason and science.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.10,0:09:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah there's no God up there, the rationalists have it right.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.62,0:09:52.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Is that what you do when you're off duty,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.86,0:09:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,read philosophers?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.35,0:09:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, there's lots of hours at sea, John.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.35,0:10:01.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lots of time to think, Hobbes, Voltaire.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.43,0:10:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They make more sense than a pack of priests mumbling Latin.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.28,0:10:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah, nothing but superstition to control the rest of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.96,0:10:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You should read Hobbes, I'll loan you his book, Leviathan.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.71,0:10:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] And so I too became a sailor-philosopher of sorts.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.82,0:10:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spinoza and Hobbes, often made quite a deal of sense.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.87,0:10:32.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And just as often made me doubt the simple faith
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.64,0:10:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my childhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.80,0:10:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One night, at sea, I fell asleep over a book,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.60,0:10:42.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had the strangest dream, one that would come back
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.88,0:10:46.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to me again and again throughout my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.11,0:10:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mysterious calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.21,0:11:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- As long as you preserve this ring, you will be successful
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.22,0:11:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happy, but should you lose it or part of it,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.90,0:11:16.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you must only expect sorrow and distress.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.36,0:12:01.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You believe that ring is magic?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.09,0:12:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- As long as I preserve and keep it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.52,0:12:09.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I should be happy and successful.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.83,0:12:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Are you knocky boy?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.02,0:12:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a simpleton, you believe anything you're told don't ya?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.72,0:12:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It seemed right.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.05,0:12:21.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What's right about it, some stranger hands you a ring,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.74,0:12:26.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tells you it's magic, it's a talisman, and you believe him?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.62,0:12:29.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a (mumbling)!
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.24,0:12:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seriously John, how can you buy such claptrap?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.97,0:12:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You ascribe magical powers to a wee piece of metal,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.31,0:12:38.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shaped in a circle.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.67,0:12:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd be ashamed to admit such superstitions to another man.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.74,0:12:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't you understand that by subscribing to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.29,0:12:51.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such superstitions it saps your own human powers of reason?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.11,0:12:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throw it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.98,0:12:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go on, throw it away, create your own faith,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.50,0:13:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take control of your own destiny, go on, throw it away,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.100,0:13:06.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go on, go on, show you're a man!
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.41,0:13:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.40,0:13:32.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.13,0:13:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(water splashing)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.09,0:13:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.75,0:13:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh you are a fool, what a (mumbling), believe anything
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.35,0:13:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're told, but now you're lost, for that ring
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.08,0:13:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contained in it all the mercy (mumbling).
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.06,0:13:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now it's gone, at your own hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:54.52,0:13:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(fire crackling)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.12,0:14:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(moves into sad music)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.40,0:14:40.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Hooded Man] What did you do with it?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:41.85,0:14:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I threw it away.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.29,0:14:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(weeping)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.68,0:14:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I threw it away!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.31,0:14:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Where did you throw it?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.63,0:15:01.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(water splashing)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.89,0:15:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I brought it back for you.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.76,0:15:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.18,0:15:25.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you're to be entrusted with this ring again,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.14,0:15:28.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will soon bring yourself to the same distress,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.57,0:15:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not able to keep it, but, I will preserve it for
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.74,0:15:36.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you, and whenever it is needful, I will produce it
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.51,0:15:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on your behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.55,0:16:06.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] It wasn't long before that voyage was nearing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.18,0:16:09.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its end and I would be able to return to Kent
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.12,0:16:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to visit my Polly, as the ship turned home, all my thoughts
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.56,0:16:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had turned to her and the prospect of again seeing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.63,0:16:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her sweet face.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.46,0:16:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was not to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.50,0:16:29.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Less than five miles from her house, I encountered
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.01,0:16:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a press gang, these were the days of an impeding war
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.14,0:16:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with France, and the Navy needed fresh men all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.16,0:16:39.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Press gangs roamed the country authorized to virtually
Dialogue: 0,0:16:39.72,0:16:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kidnap a likely young lad, and press him into
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.58,0:16:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the service of His Majesty's Navy.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.63,0:16:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Run, it's a press gang!
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.66,0:16:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.79,0:17:02.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(loud thudding)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.96,0:17:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(ship creaking)
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.02,0:17:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, he's awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:12.80,0:17:16.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to His Majesty's Navy, what's your name son?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.61,0:17:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah, John Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.57,0:17:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're at sea?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.95,0:17:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, a day out of Liverpool, you was the last
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.52,0:17:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conscript brought on board, here drink something,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:33.80,0:17:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'll help you feel better.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.46,0:17:49.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What's the ship?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.02,0:17:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- HMS Eridge, newly commissioned man-of-war.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.20,0:17:55.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under the command of Captain Carteret.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.73,0:17:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're on our way to France to defend King and Country.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.19,0:18:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're always fighting with France or Spain,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.31,0:18:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever since Eve bit that apple.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.99,0:18:08.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I was on my ways to propose to my beloved.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.35,0:18:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah that's a shame, four years we'll be out I expect.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.49,0:18:13.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Four years? - Aye.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.62,0:18:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh...
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.00,0:18:17.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.20,0:18:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Captured, carried away from my love against my will.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.34,0:18:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imprisoned at sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.27,0:19:06.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each day on the ocean took me further from Polly,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.65,0:19:08.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and increased my resentment.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.70,0:19:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Hey Johnny, Johnny, you got to get along with
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.26,0:19:26.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other sailors, we've all got our crosses to bear.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.31,0:19:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Leave me alone!
Dialogue: 0,0:19:32.31,0:19:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The smoldering anger that had always burned in me
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.94,0:19:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was now a fire of resentment.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.69,0:19:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I obeyed orders, I did my job, but I did so with a solemn
Dialogue: 0,0:19:44.67,0:19:48.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attitude, in my mind God himself had cheated me.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.20,0:19:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why did you do this to me?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.33,0:19:57.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Am I such a sinner that you just singled me out
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.51,0:19:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for special punishment?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.22,0:20:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've nothing to do with you.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:12.10,0:20:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.39,0:20:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I was no fool, I soon perceived that I had a greater
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.26,0:20:29.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chance of liberty if I was promoted and so I began to focus
Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.57,0:20:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all my rage into hard work and efforts to please
Dialogue: 0,0:20:32.57,0:20:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the officers, not because I had any true respect for them,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.13,0:20:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but because I saw it as my opportunity for a change.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:43.84,0:20:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I started to work hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.86,0:20:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.65,0:20:50.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I showed officers great respect.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.58,0:20:51.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.06,0:20:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] Aye sir?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:54.20,0:20:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Good job seaman.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:55.60,0:20:56.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Thank you sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.81,0:20:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least to their faces.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.75,0:21:00.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fool.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:15.12,0:21:16.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wish to see me sir?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.23,0:21:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, Mr. Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.33,0:21:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your father's a merchant captain.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.27,0:21:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.75,0:21:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I've heard good things of him, he's written me
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.45,0:21:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asking that I consider you for advancement.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.57,0:21:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've spoken to the mate and he says that you have
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.06,0:21:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been an exemplary seaman.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:32.53,0:21:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I try my best sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.87,0:21:37.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's the attitude, what would you say to being promoted
Dialogue: 0,0:21:37.57,0:21:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to midshipman?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:39.80,0:21:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir, I would like that very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:41.94,0:21:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Didn't think you'd refuse, so be it, you are promoted
Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.24,0:21:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to midshipman.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.08,0:21:51.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.57,0:22:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Being a midshipman meant that I was a sort of apprentice
Dialogue: 0,0:22:02.06,0:22:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officer and I was set over my former mates.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.25,0:22:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come on you sluggards, get to work!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.30,0:22:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do that mopping, I want that cleaned up, (mumbling).
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.96,0:22:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aye sir, set the topsail, belay the shrouds!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:22.60,0:22:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sails mended, seamen.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:29.78,0:22:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I behaved with perfect form to my superiors,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.49,0:22:36.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rage inside me often was taken out on the sailors
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.44,0:22:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were now under me, much as I had once bullied smaller
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.00,0:22:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.84,0:22:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You call that a knot, seaman?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.34,0:22:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir, figure-of-eight.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.82,0:22:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It's a throbbing mess!
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.85,0:22:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take it apart and start again.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.67,0:22:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir...
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.27,0:22:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Talk back and there'll be no rations for you tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.68,0:22:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.47,0:23:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] After some months at sea patrolling the Channel,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.43,0:23:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even fighting skirmishes with French ships,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.98,0:23:06.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(cannons firing)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.12,0:23:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(cannonball exploding)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.06,0:23:14.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we had to put back into Plymouth for repairs,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.89,0:23:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then it was that I had my chance.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.46,0:23:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton, while we have repairs I'm going to permit
Dialogue: 0,0:23:21.13,0:23:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a rotational shore leave for the seamen.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:23.99,0:23:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm assigning you to go ashore with them and supervise
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.74,0:23:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure none of desert.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:29.07,0:23:29.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.30,0:23:35.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was as if the master had left the cat to guard the cream.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.92,0:23:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll be back at sunset, anyone not here and ready to
Dialogue: 0,0:23:41.61,0:23:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,return to the ship shall be counted as deserting,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:44.94,0:23:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll feel the lash.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:46.40,0:23:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Seamen] Aye sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.98,0:23:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- All right off with you!
Dialogue: 0,0:23:49.90,0:23:53.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughing) (chattering)
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.33,0:23:57.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here at last was my chance to go see my Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.88,0:24:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wasn't much on thinking things through in those days
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.97,0:24:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it didn't really occur to me
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.08,0:24:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that desertion would catch up with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:17.47,0:24:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.60,0:24:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- John Henry Newton!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.75,0:24:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a warrant for your arrest for the desertion
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.49,0:24:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from His Majesty's Navy!
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.31,0:24:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. John Newton, charged with desertion from
Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.26,0:24:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His Majesty's Royal Navy, a charge punishable
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.22,0:24:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by death when found guilty by court-martial.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:48.38,0:24:50.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or lesser punishment by a ship's captain
Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.63,0:24:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as defined by Article 16 of the Article of War.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.31,0:24:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Captain, what shall be the punishment?
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.19,0:25:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- He shall be demoted from his present position
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.36,0:25:05.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stripped of all rank.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.56,0:25:08.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He shall be tied to the main mast and administered
Dialogue: 0,0:25:08.82,0:25:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,12 lashes with the cat.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:12.92,0:25:16.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let each of you witness what happen to those who desert
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.39,0:25:18.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from His Majesty's service.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.56,0:25:27.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(drum banging) (whip cracking)
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.57,0:25:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(groaning)
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.12,0:26:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one shall speak a word to Mr. Newton for seven days.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:00.82,0:26:04.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one shall show him favor, no one shall share
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.67,0:26:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any ration with him, other than the bread and water
Dialogue: 0,0:26:08.60,0:26:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assigned by the galley master.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.92,0:26:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are these instructions clear?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:14.11,0:26:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Seamen] Aye sir!
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.82,0:26:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You got your own now don't you Mr. High and Mighty?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.73,0:26:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got nothing more than what you deserve.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.38,0:26:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enjoy your meal, sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.22,0:26:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:27:19.70,0:27:23.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It's healing up, you can sleep in the hammock from now on.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.78,0:27:28.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll have you up swabbing the deck in no time.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.32,0:27:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sad music)
Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.44,0:27:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Jensen.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.09,0:27:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Master word to Mr. Jensen.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.49,0:27:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Smythe.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.42,0:27:48.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Master word to Mr. Smythe.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.93,0:27:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- And Mr. Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.63,0:27:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- But captain, sir?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.74,0:27:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I said Mr. Newton, sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.04,0:28:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Master word to Mr. Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.01,0:28:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] The captain had conscripted two gunners from
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.43,0:28:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a passing ship, maritime law required that he replaced them
Dialogue: 0,0:28:05.92,0:28:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with able-bodied seamen, so that the civilian ship
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.91,0:28:11.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not be shorthanded.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:11.40,0:28:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This gave Captain Carteret the perfect opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.56,0:28:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get rid of some troublemakers.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:16.73,0:28:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Able-Bodied seamen my arse, two here with scurvy
Dialogue: 0,0:28:20.54,0:28:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and one barely recovered from the scourge.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:23.70,0:28:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I can tell ya, you'll feel the cat again
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.60,0:28:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you disobey on this ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.15,0:28:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Seamen] Aye sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:28.72,0:28:33.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- This is a slave ship, we'll be 18 months on the Triangle.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:33.19,0:28:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Serve well and you'll be rewarded, serve poorly
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.84,0:28:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll be punished, understood?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.57,0:28:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Seamen] Aye sir.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.61,0:28:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Dismissed!
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.44,0:28:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.76,0:29:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] I came to like many of the sailors of the Levant.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.26,0:29:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the old rage still burned inside me.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.02,0:29:19.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now it was directed all at the captain.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.45,0:29:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- That's a sloppy bit of work there Mr. Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.74,0:29:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If that's the way you worked on the Eridge,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.74,0:29:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no wonder you got flogged.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.50,0:29:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye listen up mates, I've come up with a little song
Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.16,0:29:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about old Mr. Phelps up here.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.90,0:29:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Did you ever see the lines since you been to sea
Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.02,0:29:45.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Let the good ship rock
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.78,0:29:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ A benty-leggy captain with a bent back knee
Dialogue: 0,0:29:48.51,0:29:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Wobbling down the dock
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.34,0:29:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Wobbling down the dock
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.96,0:29:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Let the good ship roll and rock
Dialogue: 0,0:29:56.87,0:29:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Better call a coward, or cower up the wall
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.88,0:30:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Wobbling down the dock
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.92,0:30:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Wobbling down the dock
Dialogue: 0,0:30:05.62,0:30:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Let the good ship roll and rock
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.45,0:30:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Better call a coward, or cower up the wall
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.06,0:30:15.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Wobbling down the dock
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.12,0:30:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.19,0:30:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We'll anchor at the Banana Islands in Sierra Leone
Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.81,0:30:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tomorrow, I'll need a crew of three to row me in
Dialogue: 0,0:30:28.64,0:30:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to meet with the trader.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:31.56,0:30:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Harkness, Smythe and Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:37.69,0:30:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following day we'll sail to (mumbling) Bay
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.34,0:30:42.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we'll load the cargo.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.35,0:30:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.60,0:30:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(mumbling) staying here (mumbling).
Dialogue: 0,0:30:59.70,0:31:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You like what you see then?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.84,0:31:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Do I, I bet the young trader there lives like a king.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.89,0:31:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's not to like.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.97,0:31:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think Newton?
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.49,0:31:11.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah you both are daft.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:11.61,0:31:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It might be nice for a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:13.69,0:31:16.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanna get back to England,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.27,0:31:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wanna see my Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.97,0:31:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Smythe, Harkness, make ready the boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.64,0:31:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newton, you stay here with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:32.10,0:31:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Campbell, this is Mr. Newton, the young man
Dialogue: 0,0:31:35.62,0:31:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was telling you about.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:37.84,0:31:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It's a pleasure to meet you Mr--
Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.95,0:31:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(groaning) (anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.57,0:31:45.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You won't be so pleased once you understand the deal.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.40,0:31:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've traded you Mr. Newton, you're gonna stay here
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.59,0:31:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a servant, how do you like them apples Mr. Funnyman?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:10.25,0:32:12.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So you've met the lash?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.42,0:32:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You'll meet again soon enough if you don't serve well.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:19.76,0:32:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're my property now Newton, and there's no way
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.50,0:32:25.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off this island without me knowledge or me permission.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:25.91,0:32:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So don't you go be getting any bright ideas.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.22,0:32:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to be a servant for me wife, serve her well,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.16,0:32:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do as your told, and your life will be much easier.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:37.01,0:32:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you buck against, and you'll find out just how
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.02,0:32:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hard a life can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.44,0:32:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You guards, take him to Peyai.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.50,0:32:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's always wanted to have a white man as a slave.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.88,0:32:51.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And now she's got one.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.52,0:32:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:33:05.14,0:33:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- He is not much to look at, is he?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.64,0:33:12.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give him a mat, and chain him behind the house.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.87,0:33:14.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First we must break him.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.26,0:33:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] My defiance, my sins, had all caught up with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:32.18,0:33:33.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was a slave.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:40.09,0:33:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They gave me only a little to eat for days,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:43.41,0:33:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just enough to drink to keep me alive.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:46.53,0:33:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.56,0:34:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- We take the chains off today, you are Peyai's slave.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:21.52,0:34:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you understand?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.85,0:34:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You must do exactly as she bids.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.40,0:34:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you try to run away, we will hunt you
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.83,0:34:37.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and chain you, if you disobey you will be whipped.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:41.12,0:34:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you try to run away twice, we will kill you,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.22,0:34:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,slowly, in a way that will make you wish for death to come.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.84,0:34:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you understand?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.52,0:34:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:53.100,0:34:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Head Guard] Now go and serve your mistress.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.48,0:35:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah my little white man.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:09.86,0:35:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh you must be so terribly hungry, how could you
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.15,0:35:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have treated my little white man so badly?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.53,0:35:19.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, let me give you some food.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.36,0:35:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would like something to eat, wouldn't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:24.82,0:35:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure you would, I'm sure you are starving.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:29.23,0:35:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The food will taste so good.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.69,0:35:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.43,0:36:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] She worked me like a mule.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.51,0:36:14.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She seemed to take particular delight in watching me suffer.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.63,0:36:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often making me do chores that were simply pointless.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.18,0:36:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah, very good, now that you have placed the logs here,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:27.01,0:36:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put them back and place them exactly where you found them.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.91,0:36:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughing) (ominous music)
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.30,0:37:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newton, Newton, I want some fresh coconut milk.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.05,0:37:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go bring me some.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:35.43,0:37:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(monkey screeching)
Dialogue: 0,0:38:02.53,0:38:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newton, Newton!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.45,0:38:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Newton!
Dialogue: 0,0:38:15.58,0:38:17.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.17,0:38:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is my coconut milk, Newton?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.43,0:38:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want my coconut milk now.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:25.51,0:38:26.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is he?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.76,0:38:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You are useless, even as a slave.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.20,0:38:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] For a long time I felt nothing but hunger
Dialogue: 0,0:38:47.53,0:38:51.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and despair, I could never forget that I was the lowest
Dialogue: 0,0:38:51.45,0:38:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,form of life on the island, even the native slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:38:55.64,0:38:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had thatched huts to live in.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.46,0:39:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While I had to sleep on the ground under the stars.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.44,0:39:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, Campbell and Peyai lived in
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.55,0:39:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a great brick house at the center of the island,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:10.18,0:39:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was seldom allowed in the big house.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:13.26,0:39:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then only to do menial labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:17.33,0:39:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as long as I obeyed Peyai's abusive commands,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:21.53,0:39:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they fed me a little, and I regained some strength
Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.44,0:39:27.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in mind as well as body.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:29.41,0:39:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:39:34.04,0:39:37.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One night I lay looking at the expanse of the heavens.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.37,0:39:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to try and see how many constellations I could
Dialogue: 0,0:39:39.50,0:39:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identify, how many stars I could name, this became
Dialogue: 0,0:39:44.14,0:39:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a nightly game, that became a private area of freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.59,0:39:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me, and I began to dream again of my dear Polly,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:53.47,0:39:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my beautiful Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:56.98,0:40:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder if I will ever see her again.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.70,0:40:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then one night it seemed to me that a group of stars
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.07,0:40:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formed a circle, a ring, a constellation I had never seen
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.11,0:40:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before and never since.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.11,0:40:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may have been my eyes playing a trick
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.11,0:40:16.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or perhaps a planet had wandered into an unusual position
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.37,0:40:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visible from this latitude but that night I could indeed
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.96,0:40:24.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see a ring, a ring like the one in my dream.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.00,0:40:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You're not able to keep it.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:29.72,0:40:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I will preserve it for you and whenever it is needful
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.52,0:40:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will produce it on your behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:48.82,0:40:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During the days when Peyai was in a mood,
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.82,0:40:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would work very hard but then there would be hours
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.74,0:40:59.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of boredom when there was nothing to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.38,0:41:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day I found a small lime tree growing near the village,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.42,0:41:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seemed much like me.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.68,0:41:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beating and starving, despairing of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:13.41,0:41:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I adopted that little tree as my own
Dialogue: 0,0:41:15.98,0:41:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and began to take care of it to water and to fertilize it.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.69,0:41:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found other seedlings and planted them in what became
Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.54,0:41:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own little garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.23,0:41:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.83,0:41:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, Campbell had me move heavy crates
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.79,0:41:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the big house, I was alone for a few moments,
Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.87,0:41:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there I came upon a dusty old geometry book.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:50.13,0:41:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I took it and hit it under my mat.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.73,0:41:58.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began in my spare time to work geometry problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:58.97,0:42:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scratching diagrams in the sand.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:02.40,0:42:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using the sun and the shadow of my little lime tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.06,0:42:08.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I calculated the latitude and longitude of the islands
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.48,0:42:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were on.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.35,0:42:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which were commonly called the Banana Islands.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.02,0:42:16.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like the stars, like the little lime tree, it gave
Dialogue: 0,0:42:16.91,0:42:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me something to focus on, a space that was mine
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.12,0:42:21.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mine alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.84,0:42:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was little that I could do with the knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:24.99,0:42:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the exercise did much to keep my mind occupied
Dialogue: 0,0:42:27.91,0:42:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sharp.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.13,0:42:36.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day when I was tending to my little garden
Dialogue: 0,0:42:36.47,0:42:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and passing the time with equations written in the sand,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:39.74,0:42:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Campbell and Peyai walked down the path
Dialogue: 0,0:42:42.30,0:42:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and caught sight of what I was doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.82,0:42:50.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Newton, what are you doing man?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.10,0:42:52.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you growing your own limes?
Dialogue: 0,0:42:52.57,0:42:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] I was terrified that Peyai, as cruel as she was
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.15,0:42:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would make me destroy my little place of sanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.70,0:43:02.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well who knows, maybe one day before those
Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.16,0:43:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trees are full grown you can sail back
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.01,0:43:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to England and you can be the captain of your own boat.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:07.88,0:43:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you can come back here and enjoy the fruits
Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.55,0:43:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of your labor.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.69,0:43:13.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Then again perhaps he will become the King of Poland.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.59,0:43:15.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughing)
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.53,0:43:22.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What is this?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.77,0:43:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you understand the mathematics?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:27.02,0:43:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes sir, I taught myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.48,0:43:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh, you might not be a complete waste after all.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:39.57,0:43:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.08,0:43:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here are a set of equations, I'd like for you to solve them.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:56.53,0:43:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- What is it, a test?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.69,0:44:01.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye if you will, I want to see just how good you are
Dialogue: 0,0:44:01.61,0:44:05.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with these mathematics, sit down, sit down.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.36,0:44:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.17,0:44:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm in need of a clerk to manage me factory at Kittam.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.92,0:44:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't very many people in Sierra Leone who understand
Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.50,0:44:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,numbers.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:43.02,0:44:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Factory?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.12,0:44:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, it's me slave trading post, it's where
Dialogue: 0,0:44:47.28,0:44:49.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Bombo bring the slaves from the interior
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.79,0:44:52.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and make them ready for transport to the West Indies.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.74,0:44:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My brother runs the factory, but he's in need of someone
Dialogue: 0,0:44:55.11,0:44:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who can keep the accounts, you will go there,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:58.66,0:45:01.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will serve him now.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.16,0:45:03.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guard will take you.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.28,0:45:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.50,0:45:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- At Kittam my life changed dramatically,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.62,0:45:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had new clean clothes to wear, Angus Campbell
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.08,0:45:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treated me well, almost as an equal.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.79,0:45:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:46:17.66,0:46:19.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Bombo treated me with respect,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:19.97,0:46:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inviting me to their feasts.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.51,0:46:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(cheerful drumming) (cheering)
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.63,0:46:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought of Polly often, before long I had given up
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.38,0:46:45.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any hope of ever returning to England.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.01,0:46:46.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My circumstance had changed from one
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.64,0:46:50.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of daily despair to one of comfort,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.26,0:46:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had all I needed, food, shelter, clothing, respect.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:55.52,0:46:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even women.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:57.90,0:47:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thoughts of England faded, and my life in Kittam
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.73,0:47:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began to envelop every part of my being.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.53,0:47:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other settlers even had an expression for it,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:08.20,0:47:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they called it going native.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.37,0:47:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applauding)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.87,0:47:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory drumming) (singing foreign language)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.76,0:47:27.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are they saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.98,0:47:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It means freedom.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:46.03,0:47:48.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:58.91,0:48:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] But then came the day when my entire world
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.21,0:48:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would suddenly change again as if a lightning bolt
Dialogue: 0,0:48:04.76,0:48:05.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had struck.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.92,0:48:08.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton, a man here to see you.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:08.62,0:48:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton, Mr. John Newton.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.48,0:48:12.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.47,0:48:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm Archibald Gother, Captain of the HMS Greyhound,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.26,0:48:16.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of Liverpool.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:16.18,0:48:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah, welcome Captain Gother, are you here to pick up
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.01,0:48:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a shipment?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.84,0:48:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Not exactly, you see I'm here to take you home.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.70,0:48:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Me, what are you talking about?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.69,0:48:27.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Your father commissioned me to find you
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.27,0:48:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bring you back to England whatever the cost.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.99,0:48:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been stopping at every trading post south of
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.61,0:48:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Canaries searching for you, and finally here you are!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.37,0:48:39.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- My father!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.25,0:48:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton!
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.18,0:48:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(foreboding music)
Dialogue: 0,0:49:04.57,0:49:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- There she is, the Greyhound.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:07.40,0:49:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After this, we got two more ports of call.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.70,0:49:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To pick up ivory and beeswax.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:11.90,0:49:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we should set sail for Liverpool,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.78,0:49:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for you, home.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.100,0:49:20.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Captain Gother, a month ago I would've told you
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.33,0:49:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had no hope or even dreams of seeing England again.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:24.41,0:49:26.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was prepared to live out my days here.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.92,0:49:29.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Perhaps marry a native, even have my grave right here
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.65,0:49:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in West Africa, if I believed in God I would say
Dialogue: 0,0:49:34.52,0:49:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his hand had brought you here.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:36.60,0:49:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Believe it, for who else can it be?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:40.68,0:49:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.52,0:50:13.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] And so I began my journey home.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.18,0:50:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not as a crewman but as a passenger on the Greyhound.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.77,0:50:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freed of the duties I was used to, I had many hours
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.77,0:50:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at sea to think, to think about my life,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.52,0:50:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to think about life itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.69,0:50:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.88,0:50:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was during these long hours of leisure
Dialogue: 0,0:50:59.92,0:51:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I discovered a book, The Imitation of Christ
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.43,0:51:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Thomas a Kempis, I began reading it,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.56,0:51:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not as a meditational work but as a work of fiction
Dialogue: 0,0:51:11.15,0:51:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and entertainment to pass the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:14.24,0:51:18.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as I read the involuntary suggestion came to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:18.78,0:51:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if these words were true, what if the faith
Dialogue: 0,0:51:22.12,0:51:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this long dead writer was in fact a reality
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.45,0:51:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I simply did not understand.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.98,0:51:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could not bear the inference as it related to myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.21,0:51:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dimly remembered Scripture verses came unbidden
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.84,0:51:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my mind, especially fearful passages that speak
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.14,0:51:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the judgment of those who know the way of truth
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.15,0:51:45.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then depart from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.19,0:51:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I were one of them?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.85,0:51:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if the faith I had abandoned was in fact
Dialogue: 0,0:51:51.21,0:51:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the driving reality of the universe?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.53,0:51:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if God's hand had in fact been the moving force
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.49,0:52:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brought me to this point, brought Gother
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.78,0:52:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Sierra Leone to rescue me.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:03.78,0:52:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if I had turned my back on the very God
Dialogue: 0,0:52:06.70,0:52:08.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who sought to save me?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.29,0:52:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was so caught up in my own thoughts and meditation
Dialogue: 0,0:52:15.13,0:52:17.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had not even been aware of the storm that
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.75,0:52:18.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had engulfed us.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:18.93,0:52:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(thunder rumbling)
Dialogue: 0,0:52:25.77,0:52:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- All hands on deck John!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:27.96,0:52:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.50,0:52:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mister, hey, get that canvas down!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.17,0:52:52.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(shouting)
Dialogue: 0,0:53:06.68,0:53:09.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Sailor] Pilot down, pilot down!
Dialogue: 0,0:53:09.33,0:53:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Get Newton, get Newton! - I know where he is!
Dialogue: 0,0:53:12.94,0:53:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music) (storm brooding)
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.36,0:53:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- God save us!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:15.34,0:54:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.67,0:54:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.64,0:54:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought back then on that powerful recurring dream
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.32,0:54:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that had haunted my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.53,0:54:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I will preserve it for you, and whenever it is needful,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:50.49,0:54:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will produce it on your behalf.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:53.20,0:54:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:55:05.82,0:55:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] We had survived the most terrifying storm
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.20,0:55:09.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my life at sea.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:10.70,0:55:13.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But more than that I had a glimmer of new hope,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.81,0:55:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a spark of faith in my heart, in my darkest moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.44,0:55:21.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I discovered a chance of reconciliation,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:21.65,0:55:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a God that I had long dismissed as mere fiction.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.78,0:55:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was March 10th, 1748.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:30.11,0:55:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A day that I would mark for the rest of my life
Dialogue: 0,0:55:32.71,0:55:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the day of my conversion.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.50,0:55:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.84,0:55:50.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is little doubt that our very cargo had saved us.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:50.76,0:55:52.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beeswax and the (mumbling) we carried
Dialogue: 0,0:55:52.95,0:55:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being both lighter than water.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:56.03,0:55:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Greyhound was so swamped with water that we surely
Dialogue: 0,0:55:58.42,0:56:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would've sunk if it were not for the flotation
Dialogue: 0,0:56:01.07,0:56:02.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the cargo itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:04.03,0:56:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But was God's hand not present even in this detail?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:08.53,0:56:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we limped back toward England, tripled with only a few
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.66,0:56:15.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sails, I spent most of my time reading the Scriptures.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.83,0:56:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meditating and praying to the Lord for mercy
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.11,0:56:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.01,0:56:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to see my life in a different perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:34.26,0:56:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The burning anger that had driven me as a younger man
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.72,0:56:37.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was now faded.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.27,0:56:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to see that my entire life was that as
Dialogue: 0,0:56:41.85,0:56:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:44.80,0:56:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not in a figurative way, as most people understand it,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.78,0:56:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the most literal reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.92,0:56:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Watcher] Land ho!
Dialogue: 0,0:56:55.54,0:56:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] We sighted land on April 7th, the Irish island
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.46,0:57:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Tory, the next day we landed at Swilly.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.96,0:57:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Finally I was safely home, after misadventures
Dialogue: 0,0:57:08.18,0:57:10.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seemed like a storybook.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.30,0:57:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- So did you see your father?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:16.88,0:57:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- No.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:19.65,0:57:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See God's ways are very strange.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:23.18,0:57:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see the day I arrived in Liverpool
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.84,0:57:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I discovered that my father had shipped out only the day
Dialogue: 0,0:57:29.29,0:57:32.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before for Canada, he'd been appointed
Dialogue: 0,0:57:32.70,0:57:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Governor of York's Fort in Hudson Bay Colony.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:37.08,0:57:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never saw him again.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.53,0:57:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- How sad.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:40.79,0:57:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did he know that you were safe?
Dialogue: 0,0:57:42.71,0:57:45.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh yes we were able to write one another
Dialogue: 0,0:57:45.37,0:57:48.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so he knew the whole story, but he died there
Dialogue: 0,0:57:48.79,0:57:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Canada and was buried there and I never saw him again.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:53.88,0:57:58.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, God gave me a new father as it were,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.14,0:58:00.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joseph Manastee who owned the ship that
Dialogue: 0,0:58:00.69,0:58:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had returned on, took me under his wing
Dialogue: 0,0:58:03.18,0:58:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and treated me as if I were his own son.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:07.14,0:58:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He got me a commission as first mate
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.63,0:58:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a trade ship and I did very well.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:11.92,0:58:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of the rebellion in my spirit, the burning anger,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:15.37,0:58:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had been washed away in Africa and I no longer found
Dialogue: 0,0:58:17.99,0:58:20.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myself always attracted to trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:22.50,0:58:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My new station in life secure, I could at long last
Dialogue: 0,0:58:26.45,0:58:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back to Kent, and to my Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:30.51,0:58:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My beloved Polly.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:35.84,0:58:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After years of remember her face as in a dream,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:39.78,0:58:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was finally able to marry my dear Polly,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:43.15,0:58:44.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the love of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:46.27,0:58:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- According to God's holy ordinance, and thereto,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:49.93,0:58:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I give you my truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:52.98,0:58:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- With this ring I give you my heart.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.44,0:58:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With my body I give you worship.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:57.74,0:59:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with all of my worldly goods, I thee endow.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.78,0:59:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the name of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:06.52,0:59:07.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Amen.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.80,0:59:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before long my benefactor Joseph Manastee promoted me
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.55,0:59:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to captain, captain of my own ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:23.27,0:59:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Duke of Argyll.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:28.15,0:59:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Duke of Argyll was a slaving ship.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:31.69,0:59:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So my job as captain was to take the ship
Dialogue: 0,0:59:35.50,0:59:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the West coast of Africa, very close to
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.94,0:59:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I had been held captive myself, pick up slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:59:41.40,0:59:44.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there, transport them to the West Indies, there to
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.66,0:59:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exchange them for molasses and rum, and return those
Dialogue: 0,0:59:48.42,0:59:52.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to England, that's why we called it the Triangular Trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:52.75,0:59:56.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Wait, you were a captain of a slave ship?
Dialogue: 0,0:59:58.29,1:00:01.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After you were a slave yourself?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:01.68,1:00:04.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could you do that?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:04.01,1:00:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You're a very astute young man.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:07.98,1:00:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No I was infant in the faith, and I really did not
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.46,1:00:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see the evils of the slave trade at the time.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.95,1:00:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of us did, it was considered an honorable way
Dialogue: 0,1:00:20.20,1:00:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a living.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.91,1:00:25.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- But you were held captive, how could you do that
Dialogue: 0,1:00:25.12,1:00:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to someone else?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.71,1:00:29.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It was all too easy.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:31.17,1:00:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see attitudes are starting to change now,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:33.58,1:00:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but 20 years ago, no one questioned the slave trade,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:37.54,1:00:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well save the Quakers and a few Moravian missionaries
Dialogue: 0,1:00:40.67,1:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in St. Thomas.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:43.01,1:00:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone in England that had any money at all,
Dialogue: 0,1:00:46.01,1:00:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had it invested in the slave trade it was very profitable.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:50.69,1:00:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where profit is concerned we turn a blind eye, don't we?
Dialogue: 0,1:00:57.07,1:00:59.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I could see at the time was that as a Christian
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.49,1:01:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ship captain, my job was to safely transport the slaves
Dialogue: 0,1:01:03.61,1:01:06.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from one port to the other and treat them as well
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.32,1:01:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as possible, the same as I might do with a load of cattle.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:10.92,1:01:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It wasn't an uncommon on slave ships for almost
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.04,1:01:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a third of them to die on that middle passage.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:18.34,1:01:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were kept chained below decks, fed little food.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.18,1:01:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prided myself on the fact that only a few had ever died
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.34,1:01:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on my ships.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:28.35,1:01:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,1:01:32.98,1:01:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I devised a routine of regular exercise for the slaves,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:36.84,1:01:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that each day they would see the sunlight and keep
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.67,1:01:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves as fit and healthy as possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.49,1:01:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I insisted with Mr. Manastee that we have sufficient
Dialogue: 0,1:01:46.29,1:01:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provisions so that the slaves could maintain
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.74,1:01:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proper nourishment, and not arrive starved.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:52.29,1:01:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did the same with the crew, I was proud that my ship
Dialogue: 0,1:01:55.71,1:01:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had one of the best records for delivering slaves
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.87,1:01:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in good health.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:59.74,1:02:04.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We only had a few deaths at see, I felt each one personally
Dialogue: 0,1:02:04.06,1:02:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and worked harder on each voyage to make sure
Dialogue: 0,1:02:06.89,1:02:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that both crew and cargo stayed healthy and fit.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:10.69,1:02:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may not seem like much, but it was far more
Dialogue: 0,1:02:13.74,1:02:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than most captains did in those days.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:17.48,1:02:20.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I engaged the crew in regular times of worship.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:20.78,1:02:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ye shall have a song, as in the night
Dialogue: 0,1:02:22.84,1:02:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a holy solemnity is kept,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:25.66,1:02:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and gladness of heart, as when one go with a pipe
Dialogue: 0,1:02:28.45,1:02:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to come into the mountain of the Lord,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:30.96,1:02:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the mighty one of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:34.26,1:02:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us pray.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:36.17,1:02:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm anticipatory music)
Dialogue: 0,1:02:51.77,1:02:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was on this journey that I had the chance
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.69,1:02:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to return to the Banana Islands,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:56.23,1:02:59.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to my own place of enslavement.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:59.56,1:03:02.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was even able to find one of the lime trees
Dialogue: 0,1:03:02.21,1:03:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I had planted with my own hands so many years before.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.51,1:03:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then came my third voyage, in 1753, as captain
Dialogue: 0,1:03:27.22,1:03:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of The African.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:29.85,1:03:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We landed in Ghana to pick up a load of 600 slaves
Dialogue: 0,1:03:32.93,1:03:35.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for transport to Jamaica.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:36.38,1:03:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sad music)
Dialogue: 0,1:04:25.67,1:04:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(chains clanging) (chanting)
Dialogue: 0,1:04:43.75,1:04:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was on that voyage that I began to first wonder
Dialogue: 0,1:04:46.83,1:04:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the slave trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:06.71,1:05:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sad music)
Dialogue: 0,1:05:18.12,1:05:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would be my last voyage.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:26.43,1:05:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The weather looks good.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:28.21,1:05:30.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm gonna sail the day after tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.76,1:05:33.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I shall miss you terribly, I so wish you did not
Dialogue: 0,1:05:33.67,1:05:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to be gone so long.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:35.40,1:05:36.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes I know.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:36.88,1:05:39.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is the nature of the trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.92,1:05:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(groaning)
Dialogue: 0,1:05:41.61,1:05:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- John?
Dialogue: 0,1:05:44.23,1:05:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John, John!
Dialogue: 0,1:05:45.98,1:05:49.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(ceramic shattering)
Dialogue: 0,1:05:50.82,1:05:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sad music)
Dialogue: 0,1:05:54.43,1:05:57.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I'm afraid he's suffered a stroke.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:01.79,1:06:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] I could no longer command a ship.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:05.08,1:06:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [Samuel] How sad.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:08.80,1:06:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It seemed very hard at the time, but we were
Dialogue: 0,1:06:11.72,1:06:14.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later to understand that it was a blessing from God.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:14.86,1:06:16.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- A blessing?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:16.21,1:06:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes a blessing, you see when God closes one way
Dialogue: 0,1:06:19.68,1:06:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is often for a reason that we do not know
Dialogue: 0,1:06:22.14,1:06:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or understand, Captain Potter, the man who
Dialogue: 0,1:06:25.81,1:06:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,took over the ship for me, and his entire crew
Dialogue: 0,1:06:28.94,1:06:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were killed on that voyage.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:30.53,1:06:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- God preserve us!
Dialogue: 0,1:06:31.90,1:06:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes he did preserve us.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.94,1:06:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was a deep lesson because what we thought
Dialogue: 0,1:06:36.36,1:06:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a curse at the time, actually was filled
Dialogue: 0,1:06:39.83,1:06:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with much grace.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:42.53,1:06:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We moved back to Polly's family home in Kent,
Dialogue: 0,1:06:46.05,1:06:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for my recuperation.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:47.69,1:06:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming music)
Dialogue: 0,1:07:01.48,1:07:04.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,During this time living in Kent I had many hours
Dialogue: 0,1:07:04.89,1:07:08.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of leisure, which I often spent outdoors, I had hours
Dialogue: 0,1:07:08.80,1:07:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hours for Bible study and for meditation.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:12.90,1:07:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent many hours discovering the layers of grace
Dialogue: 0,1:07:16.00,1:07:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,present in our Lord's redeeming work.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:29.59,1:07:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slowly I regained some of my strength.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:33.21,1:07:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I knew I would never again captain a ship.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:36.97,1:07:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, my knowledge of the business enabled me
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.51,1:07:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to obtain a position as tide-surveyor of Liverpool.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:44.06,1:07:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A position of great responsibility.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:46.94,1:07:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ahoy, (mumbling) surveyor, state your cargo.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.44,1:07:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- 100 barrels of rum and a hundred barrels of molasses
Dialogue: 0,1:07:54.98,1:07:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the island, 75 barrels...
Dialogue: 0,1:07:57.66,1:07:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] I worked for the Custom's Office
Dialogue: 0,1:07:59.88,1:08:02.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was responsible to inspect incoming ships
Dialogue: 0,1:08:02.40,1:08:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make sure the proper import customs were paid
Dialogue: 0,1:08:05.03,1:08:07.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the government, even with the remaining weakness
Dialogue: 0,1:08:07.70,1:08:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from my stroke, I could still discharge the work
Dialogue: 0,1:08:10.59,1:08:14.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with responsibility, and yet have the free time
Dialogue: 0,1:08:14.28,1:08:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to study the scriptures as I desired.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:18.68,1:08:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now that we were settled in a house in Liverpool,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:21.30,1:08:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made the most of my free time.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:24.14,1:08:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ
Dialogue: 0,1:08:26.64,1:08:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and him crucified as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:31.23,1:08:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I resolved to do nothing that would not serve
Dialogue: 0,1:08:33.45,1:08:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that main purpose.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:36.04,1:08:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to learn Greek, enough to allow me to understand
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.90,1:08:42.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The New Testament and The Septuagint, and then I began
Dialogue: 0,1:08:42.07,1:08:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,studying Hebrew the following year.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:45.74,1:08:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never attained a critical skill in any of these
Dialogue: 0,1:08:48.28,1:08:51.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,languages, but I had no goal but to truly
Dialogue: 0,1:08:51.56,1:08:54.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and faithfully understand the scriptural words
Dialogue: 0,1:08:54.09,1:08:57.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and phrases so that I could judge for myself
Dialogue: 0,1:08:57.76,1:09:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the meaning of any particular passage.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:00.72,1:09:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together with this I kept up a course
Dialogue: 0,1:09:02.55,1:09:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of reading the best writers of Christian theology
Dialogue: 0,1:09:05.02,1:09:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could find.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:08.02,1:09:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Out of this gradually arose a new desire.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:11.89,1:09:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My mother's hope when I was a child was that I should
Dialogue: 0,1:09:14.61,1:09:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enter the Ministry.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:16.73,1:09:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now for the first time I began to feel a strong calling
Dialogue: 0,1:09:20.70,1:09:24.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that direction myself, it was not a calling of
Dialogue: 0,1:09:24.36,1:09:27.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I felt worthy, but I felt in some ways
Dialogue: 0,1:09:27.95,1:09:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the perfect person to proclaim
Dialogue: 0,1:09:30.37,1:09:33.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the faithful saying from 1 Timothy.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:33.25,1:09:35.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That Jesus Christ came into the world to save the
Dialogue: 0,1:09:35.91,1:09:37.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chief of sinners.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:38.42,1:09:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life had been full of such remarkable turns,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:41.38,1:09:45.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I seemed selected to show what the Lord could do.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:47.54,1:09:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My initial enthusiasm was damped by refusal
Dialogue: 0,1:09:50.73,1:09:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,after refusal to consider me for ordination.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:55.60,1:09:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did not give up easily, but in rapid order
Dialogue: 0,1:09:58.81,1:10:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was turned down by the established church,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:01.32,1:10:04.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the Dissenters, by the Methodists,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:04.22,1:10:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by the Presbyterians.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:09.20,1:10:11.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Though not yet ordained I began to preach at churches
Dialogue: 0,1:10:11.91,1:10:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around Liverpool, and to be well received.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:16.42,1:10:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Lord bestows many blessings upon his people, but unless
Dialogue: 0,1:10:20.76,1:10:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he likewise gives 'em a thankful heart,
Dialogue: 0,1:10:24.13,1:10:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they lose much of the comfort
Dialogue: 0,1:10:25.45,1:10:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they might have in them, and this is not only a blessing
Dialogue: 0,1:10:28.69,1:10:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in itself, but in earnest of more.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:32.81,1:10:35.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,King David, when he was peacefully settled in
Dialogue: 0,1:10:35.69,1:10:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his kingdom, purposed to express his gratitude
Dialogue: 0,1:10:40.02,1:10:42.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by building a place for the arch.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:43.70,1:10:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I began to receive more and more invitations to preach
Dialogue: 0,1:10:46.63,1:10:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to speak about my life experiences.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:52.66,1:10:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Polly, Polly read this.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.12,1:10:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You're to be the pastor of
Dialogue: 0,1:10:58.87,1:11:03.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Olney?
Dialogue: 0,1:11:03.34,1:11:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh John, it is an answer to our prayers!
Dialogue: 0,1:11:07.22,1:11:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(church bells ringing)
Dialogue: 0,1:11:11.68,1:11:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I had to wait over seven long years,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:14.35,1:11:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but finally my dream to server as a parish pastor
Dialogue: 0,1:11:17.48,1:11:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would become true.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:21.73,1:11:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that Samuel is how I came to be the pastor
Dialogue: 0,1:11:24.53,1:11:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this parish, of course that was a number of years
Dialogue: 0,1:11:27.12,1:11:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ago before you were born.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:29.04,1:11:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- It is quite a story.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:30.74,1:11:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes and let it be a lesson to you.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:33.20,1:11:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the story that God has in mind for you may
Dialogue: 0,1:11:35.40,1:11:39.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be very different from what you have planned.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:39.02,1:11:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The great adventure is finding God's will for your life.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:42.68,1:11:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh I did not know you had company.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:45.01,1:11:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes this is Samuel, we met in the village.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:47.97,1:11:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Ah, aren't you Ms. Watson's oldest?
Dialogue: 0,1:11:50.72,1:11:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye she's me stepmom.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:52.64,1:11:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh why don't you join us on Tuesday,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:56.40,1:11:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John and I have begun a Bible School for the area children.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:59.98,1:12:02.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes, you'll improve your reading skills and at the same
Dialogue: 0,1:12:02.64,1:12:04.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time learn more about the Bible.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:04.86,1:12:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- If you're leading it, then I'll come.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:07.19,1:12:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh very good. (laughing)
Dialogue: 0,1:12:08.86,1:12:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- John please remember that William Cowper is coming
Dialogue: 0,1:12:11.29,1:12:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later to work on the poem.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:13.03,1:12:14.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes I do. - Hmm-mm.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.24,1:12:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Cowper and I are working on some spiritual poems
Dialogue: 0,1:12:17.93,1:12:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can be sung to popular tunes like Black-Eyed Susan
Dialogue: 0,1:12:21.70,1:12:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or Mad Robin.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:23.02,1:12:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I know them!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:24.02,1:12:25.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Of course you do. (laughing)
Dialogue: 0,1:12:25.31,1:12:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- You must be off now, Mr. Newton and Mr. Cowper
Dialogue: 0,1:12:27.76,1:12:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have some very important work to do.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:31.05,1:12:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Newton?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:32.08,1:12:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] Yes?
Dialogue: 0,1:12:32.91,1:12:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Thanks for telling me your story.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:34.48,1:12:36.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- [John] Well thank you for listening Samuel,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:36.26,1:12:37.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll be here on Tuesday.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:37.85,1:12:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Aye, I'll be here on Tuesday.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:39.60,1:12:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Very good, very good. (laughing)
Dialogue: 0,1:12:52.58,1:12:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm calming music)
Dialogue: 0,1:13:43.85,1:13:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(calming violin music)
Dialogue: 0,1:13:55.36,1:13:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Here it is.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:58.27,1:13:59.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- John Newton?
Dialogue: 0,1:13:59.23,1:14:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes here, read it.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:03.22,1:14:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- John Newton, Clerk.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:05.02,1:14:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa
Dialogue: 0,1:14:09.11,1:14:12.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:12.99,1:14:16.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preserved, restored and pardoned, and appointed to preach
Dialogue: 0,1:14:16.07,1:14:19.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the faith he had long labored to destroy.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:19.95,1:14:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- He changed my life.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:22.38,1:14:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years later he was called to St. Mary Roman Church
Dialogue: 0,1:14:25.76,1:14:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in London.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:27.43,1:14:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was old enough I joined him there.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:30.30,1:14:32.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And through him I met William Wilberforce.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:32.62,1:14:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And joined the movement to abolish the slave trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:36.64,1:14:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It took years, the bill passed Parliament in 1807,
Dialogue: 0,1:14:41.25,1:14:44.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same year that Mr. Newton died.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:44.36,1:14:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the same year that you were born Alexandria.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:50.11,1:14:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he lived to see the abolition of the slave trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:54.32,1:14:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh so he did it?
Dialogue: 0,1:14:56.44,1:15:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Well not he alone, but many working together.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:00.91,1:15:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He did change the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:05.55,1:15:07.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he changed my life.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:08.79,1:15:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The life of a little boy who was hurt and angry
Dialogue: 0,1:15:13.34,1:15:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:15.97,1:15:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He taught me something of gentleness.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:19.42,1:15:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of God's grace.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:23.28,1:15:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope you have a chance to learn of that grace as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:31.49,1:15:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm calming music)
Dialogue: 0,1:18:13.53,1:18:16.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm violin music)
Dialogue: 0,1:19:01.98,1:19:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm calming music)
Dialogue: 0,1:20:02.91,1:20:05.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(warm violin music)