To Be Free

This page, which I will periodically change, features moments and/or scenes from this screenplay.
A pivotal moment in Harriet’s relationship with her Aunt Betty transforms Harriet’s life. In front of a slave cabin behind her nemesis James Norcom’s home in town, Harriet sees Betty hold down a Teen Slave, stripped naked, while Norcom’s wife Mary, shears in hand, voraciously snips off the slave’s hair dangerously close to her head.
Shaken to the core, Harriet hurries to her grandmother Molly’s home. Betty rushes in.
“Tell Mama what you saw. With your eyes.”
”How else is there to see?” Harriet rejoins.
“Here’s what you didn’t see. I cuddles Miss Mary, say that young gal gots such pretty hair. Let’s cut it off ‘stead of whipping her to death, 'cause tha's what would'a happened if I ain't intervene.”
Harriet sees vividly in her mind's eye: the Teen, tied up by her wrists, dangles from the ceiling of a barn. She is being whipped close to death.
”I’m so sorry, Aunt Betty, I didn’t know.”
”You knows now. Lots of us does more good than you sees.”
”I want to see more. “
”You will, ‘cause now you lookin’.”
A pivotal moment in Harriet’s relationship with her Aunt Betty transforms Harriet’s life. In front of a slave cabin behind her nemesis James Norcom’s home in town, Harriet sees Betty hold down a Teen Slave, stripped naked, while Norcom’s wife Mary, shears in hand, voraciously snips off the slave’s hair dangerously close to her head.
Shaken to the core, Harriet hurries to her grandmother Molly’s home. Betty rushes in.
“Tell Mama what you saw. With your eyes.”
”How else is there to see?” Harriet rejoins.
“Here’s what you didn’t see. I cuddles Miss Mary, say that young gal gots such pretty hair. Let’s cut it off ‘stead of whipping her to death, 'cause tha's what would'a happened if I ain't intervene.”
Harriet sees vividly in her mind's eye: the Teen, tied up by her wrists, dangles from the ceiling of a barn. She is being whipped close to death.
”I’m so sorry, Aunt Betty, I didn’t know.”
”You knows now. Lots of us does more good than you sees.”
”I want to see more. “
”You will, ‘cause now you lookin’.”
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