1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:13:00,029 --> 00:13:02,907 I'm talking about some of these things kind of haphazardly, 4 00:13:02,990 --> 00:13:08,245 because it's really not organized in my mind as I would like to have it. 5 00:13:08,329 --> 00:13:13,167 So Captain Foster, as it was said, he had a gun in two hands, 6 00:13:13,250 --> 00:13:15,920 threatened to shoot anybody or kill anybody 7 00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:18,506 who attempted to leave the ship. 8 00:13:19,507 --> 00:13:23,844 Some of the people were carried to Plateau, 9 00:13:23,928 --> 00:13:26,180 some were carried to Selma, 10 00:13:26,764 --> 00:13:30,309 and some to another county in Alabama. 11 00:37:50,393 --> 00:37:54,814 This is one form of a family heritage 12 00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:59,735 which can be passed on to your descendants. 13 00:38:02,405 --> 00:38:04,740 Many Black people don't know who they are. 14 00:38:04,824 --> 00:38:07,243 They don't know where they came from. 15 00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:10,496 They don't know who their ancestors were. 16 00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,457 And they would like to know. 17 00:38:15,209 --> 00:38:18,129 Now, many of these things were done on purpose. 18 00:38:18,212 --> 00:38:22,049 They were done so you would never be able to find out who you were 19 00:38:23,134 --> 00:38:25,511 or find out your ancestry. 20 00:38:26,304 --> 00:38:30,725 But everybody wants to know something about their ancestors. 21 00:38:38,774 --> 00:38:40,401 What's this? What's this? What's this? 22 00:38:40,484 --> 00:38:43,487 We think it's the marker for Charlie grave. 23 00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:46,490 This came out of the graveyard, right? 24 01:02:39,172 --> 01:02:41,132 It's really sobering. 25 01:02:41,883 --> 01:02:42,800 It just became real. 26 01:02:42,884 --> 01:02:45,511 Even though this is just a depiction, this is not a real photograph, 27 01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:47,263 it just really became real. 28 01:02:47,346 --> 01:02:52,518 I could really feel their pain right here. I feel a connection to those people. 29 01:02:52,602 --> 01:02:55,772 And it breaks my heart. It really just… 30 01:02:55,855 --> 01:02:59,066 I just really grieve for these people that I don't even know. 31 01:02:59,734 --> 01:03:03,571 I'll go process all this tonight. I really-- I can't stop staring at it. 32 01:12:40,939 --> 01:12:42,524 I read the New York Times. 33 01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:43,484 Did you? 34 01:12:43,567 --> 01:12:45,861 Yeah, the first person had you as age 43. 35 01:12:47,780 --> 01:12:49,448 That was in Sunday's paper? 36 01:25:36,714 --> 01:25:37,799 What's your name? 37 01:25:37,882 --> 01:25:38,800 Robert Lewis. 38 01:25:39,634 --> 01:25:41,302 Okay, so Lewis from the… 39 01:25:41,886 --> 01:25:43,179 This is Michael Foster. 40 01:25:43,263 --> 01:25:45,557 -The descendant of Captain Foster. -Are you really? 41 01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:48,434 I'm from Cudjo Lewis's descendants. 42 01:25:48,518 --> 01:25:50,311 -Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you. 43 01:25:50,395 --> 01:25:52,313 Guess who that guy is over there. 44 01:25:52,397 --> 01:25:53,314 No idea. 45 01:25:54,566 --> 01:25:55,900 Introduce yourself to him. 46 01:25:55,984 --> 01:25:56,985 Mike Foster. 47 01:25:57,068 --> 01:25:58,653 Hi, Mike. Nice to meet you. 48 01:25:58,736 --> 01:26:03,116 He's a descendant of the Fosters. You know, like, William Foster. 49 01:26:03,199 --> 01:26:04,159 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 50 01:26:04,826 --> 01:26:08,496 William Foster is my first cousin four times removed. 51 01:26:08,580 --> 01:26:10,206 I'm Garry Lumbers. 52 01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:12,625 Lumbers. Sorry. I don't have my hearing aids today. 53 01:26:12,709 --> 01:26:15,253 Well, Cudjo talked about the twins. 54 01:26:15,336 --> 01:26:17,797 You know the two little girls that Cudjo talked about? 55 01:26:18,506 --> 01:26:20,049 Mary's my mother. 56 01:26:20,133 --> 01:26:21,634 -Oh, is that right? -Yeah. 57 01:26:21,718 --> 01:26:23,803 Oh wow. My name's Ben Raines. 58 01:26:23,887 --> 01:26:25,263 Okay, nice to meet you. 59 01:28:09,450 --> 01:28:11,953 Where we are right now is where the last battle was, 60 01:28:12,036 --> 01:28:15,123 which is not in the State Park, because the State Park doesn't own it. 61 01:28:15,206 --> 01:28:18,126 The people who own it… Guess who? The Meahers. 62 01:28:18,209 --> 01:28:21,671 So the Meahers actually own the last site of the Civil War 63 01:28:21,754 --> 01:28:24,799 where colored troops won the decisive battle. 64 01:28:33,683 --> 01:28:36,352 They came up here at night, and I think it all happened 65 01:28:36,436 --> 01:28:38,479 probably around 8 o'clock at night. 66 01:28:38,563 --> 01:28:41,149 Because, if he held dinner on the steamboat until he got there 67 01:28:41,232 --> 01:28:44,027 as his alibi and they say they ate dinner at nine-something. 68 01:29:14,265 --> 01:29:16,142 You all should talk about, at some point, 69 01:29:16,225 --> 01:29:19,812 even though there were things that were told that were incorrect, 70 01:29:19,896 --> 01:29:22,440 you should still share stories with each other. 71 01:29:22,523 --> 01:29:26,319 Because sometimes in those stories, there's some nuggets of truth. 72 01:29:26,944 --> 01:29:29,155 And someday, someone can investigate 73 01:29:29,238 --> 01:29:31,699 some of those statements that were made. 74 01:29:31,783 --> 01:29:33,409 That's important. 75 01:29:33,493 --> 01:29:37,121 There needs to be a group oral history, 76 01:29:37,205 --> 01:29:39,999 you know, people talking with each other. 77 01:29:40,083 --> 01:29:42,502 And did your family talk about this stuff? 78 01:29:42,585 --> 01:29:44,003 No, we didn't know about it. 79 01:31:27,690 --> 01:31:30,151 It's a hard pill to swallow, either way you look at it. 80 01:31:30,234 --> 01:31:31,152 Yes, it is. 81 01:34:05,389 --> 01:34:08,434 This history will go on. And I give you my… 82 01:34:08,517 --> 01:34:11,896 This is my prayer that you love your history enough 83 01:34:11,979 --> 01:34:14,815 that you wanna tell it everywhere you go. 84 01:40:05,165 --> 01:40:07,084 Are you afraid to breathe? 85 01:40:07,167 --> 01:40:09,253 No, no. It's very easy. 86 01:40:12,297 --> 01:40:14,758 Once you get in the water, everything becomes light. 87 01:40:15,676 --> 01:40:17,219 And you don't have no weight on you at all. 88 01:40:17,886 --> 01:40:21,849 Yeah. You become neutrally buoyant, and so that means everything is equal. 89 01:40:21,932 --> 01:40:23,142 It's like floating.