00:01Everybody out there in the fields,
00:03they think they want to be in the big house.
00:07Closer you are to the white folks, the better, safer.
00:13What they don't know is they're living in their world.
00:16It starts to change you.
00:19We start acting like them.
00:22Two things we never thought we could.
00:25Pearlie Mae, she picked cotton out in that field.
00:31All day. Every day.
00:34And I was jealous of her.
00:37Master Ona from sun up to sun down.
00:40But after that, she had her man and her baby.
00:47She could read.
00:50She could escape.
00:55We don't never get to let go.
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