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00:01:49	Go on! Go on, you lazy nag!
00:01:56	Stop a moment!
00:02:00	Go on!
00:02:03	Go on!
00:02:06	Wilber.
00:02:10	For once, let it pass.
00:02:16	If you leave your horse alone
00:02:22	And who the hell are you?
00:02:25	Hey.
00:02:28	I've seen him speak in London.
00:02:46	- Now what?
00:02:58	- Welcome home, sir.
00:03:03	The mud stole half a day.
00:03:06	But Marianne, look.
00:03:11	- I hope a pleasant one.
00:03:15	Oh, it is, half of me. My idiotic body
00:03:20	- I promised we'd make him well.
00:03:23	Breakfast, perhaps.
00:03:26	Isn't that right, cousin Henry?
00:03:29	Don't you talk to each other? Haven't
00:03:33	Now he's with us, he'll be fine.
00:04:17	What time is it?
00:04:19	This is your 3 a. m. Dose.
00:04:23	So, cousin, you're waking me up
00:04:28	Ah. Now you're taking on the medical
00:04:39	Did you sleep?
00:04:41	Sleep is more exhausting
00:04:45	The laudanum will sharpen your dreams.
00:04:47	It replays my life to mock me and shows
00:04:52	Wilber, Parliament doesn't deserve you.
00:04:55	Your last bill was defeated
00:04:59	took free tickets to a comic opera
00:05:03	In my dreams,
00:05:11	But you know the worst thing?
00:05:15	You remember how well I used to sing?
00:05:17	Marianne and I will find a way
00:05:52	The Romans believed this water
00:05:57	Most pump water I've investigated
00:06:03	So?
00:06:06	- What was so urgent?
00:06:12	Marianne, are you expecting
00:06:19	Inside this building, you will find
00:06:24	In a glass of water?
00:06:26	You may have noticed,
00:06:27	since I married Marianne,
00:06:31	- I'm very happy for you.
00:06:34	Marriage and health are twins.
00:06:38	Single men wither away and die
00:06:42	Henry, what are you babbling on about?
00:06:45	Love, Wilberforce.
00:06:49	The water has been here a million years.
00:06:52	- So, what shall we discuss next?
00:06:56	The abolition of the slave trade.
00:06:59	Marianne, if I'd known you were
00:07:04	I'd have wrapped up a Tory
00:07:07	for you to shout at.
00:07:09	Ah, now, look at that.
00:07:11	Here we are discussing
00:07:14	and in walks my husband
00:07:17	the most committed abolitionist
00:07:21	the most unmarried.
00:07:27	Oh. Look over there. It's Marianne.
00:07:31	And who's the charming-looking
00:07:34	- Marianne's here?
00:07:36	Look at the woman she's with.
00:07:40	Very committed to very many good causes.
00:07:42	And also entirely unmarried.
00:07:49	Marianne, you're outrageous!
00:07:53	I do not need you or anyone else
00:08:08	Carriage! Carriage over here.
00:08:22	- I'll never forgive him.
00:08:28	However, Mr Wilberforce,
00:08:33	I would have told you how deeply
00:08:37	to force our ridiculous Parliament
00:08:40	If you had, I would have changed
00:08:44	Botany? Why botany?
00:08:47	Anything but politics.
00:08:50	Well, I would have been bored by botany.
00:08:53	So, even in other circumstances,
00:09:00	- Good day to you.
00:09:43	Some simple truths
00:09:46	need to be restated for the benefit
00:09:50	Simple fact. We have the rebels
00:09:56	There is no question
00:09:59	is far superior
00:10:02	But we must distinguish
00:10:06	Where did this terrier spring from?
00:10:09	I believe he's a Yorkshire terrier,
00:10:11	...rather
00:10:14	Surely it is time for the fat fellow
00:10:17	to make way for others
00:10:20	of greater moment
00:10:25	Doesn't he know what dangers await
00:10:29	Oh, I think he's equal to the dangers.
00:10:31	My honourable friend suggests
00:10:36	Revolution is like a pox.
00:10:40	I bow to my honourable friend's
00:10:44	in all matters regarding the pox.
00:10:56	Why would we withdraw from America
00:10:59	when half of the Americans
00:11:02	Less than one in four Americans
00:11:05	If he calls that half, I'd hate to be
00:11:12	Mr Foreign Secretary.
00:11:14	My honourable and young friend
00:11:17	the difference between
00:11:21	Hear, hear!
00:11:27	The difference between appeasement
00:11:32	and perhaps 10,000 more young lives
00:11:36	wasted for no reason.
00:11:45	Go on.
00:11:47	Two guineas.
00:11:49	Sweet Prospero,
00:11:53	Brave in the House,
00:11:58	Your Grace, you know these merchant boys
00:12:08	Aye. I have ten guineas left.
00:12:13	So ten it is.
00:12:16	In or out, Wilberforce?
00:12:28	- A pencil and paper.
00:12:30	Brooks's Club house rules. No IOUs.
00:12:33	Amongst gentlemen, perhaps,
00:12:37	You gamble with what you have with you.
00:12:42	Wilberforce, will you take my IOU?
00:12:49	- We split the pot and call it evens.
00:12:54	There's nothing you have
00:13:00	Tarleton, fetch my nigger.
00:13:07	My coach driver.
00:13:17	I bought a nigger in Port of Spain.
00:13:20	He eats better than I do,
00:13:23	He'd fetch at least 25 guineas
00:13:27	The game is over.
00:13:33	What's wrong, Wilberforce?
00:13:35	If I hadn't brought the boy to London,
00:13:38	he'd have been worked to death
00:13:41	I saved his miserable life. There.
00:13:48	I raise the stakes.
00:13:57	Wilberforce? In the game or out?
00:14:15	Evening.
00:14:26	You act as if
00:14:29	For me it's like arsenic.
00:14:43	- You're not afraid of Clarence.
00:14:48	So, you want "bloody noses
00:14:53	- Shakespeare, Henry IV.
00:14:57	- As it will soon change.
00:15:02	You don't believe you and I
00:15:06	I would change myself first.
00:15:22	Do you remember, Billy, at Cambridge
00:15:24	I had a reputation
00:15:27	I do remember.
00:15:29	So I think I'm going to go
00:15:42	Silence!
00:15:47	Silence!
00:15:52	You sound like a chorus
00:15:56	Now, let me introduce you to somebody
00:16:05	I dedicate this song
00:16:07	His Grace, the Duke of Clarence.
00:16:11	It was written by my old preacher.
00:16:14	He was captain of a slave ship
00:16:17	He repented his sins
00:16:22	# Amazing Grace
00:16:27	- # How sweet the sound
00:16:33	# That saved a wretch
00:16:38	# Like me
00:16:43	# I once was lost
00:16:49	# But now am found
00:16:56	# Was blind
00:17:00	# But now
00:17:03	# I see #
00:17:47	Dear God, I know this is utterly absurd,
00:17:51	but I feel I have to meet you in secret.
00:17:56	Sorry to interrupt, sir.
00:18:01	I would turn him away, sir,
00:18:06	Just give him breakfast.
00:18:09	Very good, sir.
00:18:17	- Richard?
00:18:21	I know that lying down on the wet grass
00:18:26	None of my business, sir.
00:18:29	Truth is, uh...
00:18:34	...I've been even more strange
00:18:39	It's God.
00:18:42	I have 10,000
00:18:44	but I would prefer to spend the day
00:18:47	studying dandelions
00:18:52	You've found God, sir?
00:18:57	I think he found me.
00:19:00	Do you have any idea
00:19:05	how idiotic it will sound?
00:19:08	I've a political career
00:19:11	and in my heart I want spiders' webs.
00:19:25	"It is a sad fate for a man to die
00:19:29	and still unknown to himself. "
00:19:34	Francis Bacon.
00:19:36	I don'tjust dust your books, sir.
00:19:42	When I was 15,
00:19:45	They said I could have been an acrobat.
00:19:51	- Good morning, Mr Pitt.
00:19:58	Excuse me, sir.
00:20:09	You read my letter.
00:20:11	The man who wrote that letter
00:20:14	It was written by some wild preacher man
00:20:18	No.
00:20:24	- So did he reply?
00:20:28	God. You were going to ask God whether
00:20:32	You're always too direct, Billy.
00:20:34	I urgently need to know
00:20:37	- What's urgent?
00:20:45	I'm planning to become prime minister.
00:20:50	- Some day.
00:20:56	Thanks to your performances in
00:21:00	Lord Rockingham
00:21:03	Lord Rockingham's health is not good.
00:21:09	- You've worked it all out.
00:21:13	All the way.
00:21:14	You've read my letter
00:21:17	I would have you in my government
00:21:22	Billy, no one of our age
00:21:26	Which is why we're too young to realise
00:21:32	So we will do them anyway.
00:21:36	I need an answer, Wilber.
00:21:39	Do you intend to use
00:21:44	or change the world?
00:21:50	Here. Cut this, will you?
00:21:52	- I've got too much to do.
00:21:57	Any more flour?
00:21:59	- I can't!
00:22:04	Marjorie, Mr Wilberforce
00:22:18	Marjorie, I'm expecting
00:22:25	Marjorie? Marjorie?
00:22:30	- She's been run off her feet, sir.
00:22:32	Well, take today, for example.
00:22:36	Do I?
00:22:44	If you remember, you decided
00:22:49	who worked for some
00:22:53	Some brought deserving children.
00:22:58	- I really should get some sort of...
00:23:05	Go on! Go on!
00:23:15	Is that the appetiser?
00:23:18	No, that's His Grace,
00:23:24	Wilberforce, the Reverend John Ramsay.
00:23:27	Reverend.
00:23:29	Edward Hope.
00:23:31	And Michael Shaw. Both friends.
00:23:36	- This is Olaudah Equiano.
00:23:42	- You've travelled far to be here?
00:23:48	- And this is Hannah Moore.
00:23:53	Who has travelled
00:23:55	Finally, let me introduce
00:23:59	Beautiful house. Sweet little rabbit.
00:24:04	It's a hare, actually.
00:24:06	Please.
00:24:11	So come on. Who are they?
00:24:15	Why don't you ask them?
00:24:26	Well, I hope the goose is tender.
00:24:30	I find the older I get,
00:24:38	So, Miss Moore, you live in Clapham.
00:24:43	I hear it's very tranquil there.
00:24:45	When certain issues are raised
00:24:48	it is anything but tranquil.
00:24:51	Ah. And, uh, which issues are those?
00:24:54	Issues regarding
00:24:58	Better in which way?
00:25:00	If you make the world better in one way,
00:25:04	Don't you think?
00:25:08	Mr Equiano, what business
00:25:12	My business in London is you,
00:25:15	What? You wish
00:25:18	No. We do not want to talk
00:25:21	because we hear that you are a man
00:25:25	until he sees it with his own eyes.
00:25:49	These are for the legs.
00:25:56	These for the arms.
00:26:01	This is for the neck.
00:26:06	Works like so.
00:26:14	When the slaves leave port in Africa,
00:26:16	they're locked into a space
00:26:19	They have no sanitation,
00:26:24	Their waste and blood fills the holes
00:26:29	These irons and chains are to keep them
00:26:35	The chains are not unlocked until
00:26:41	Around half of the slaves
00:26:45	In the markets, they stuff knotted rope
00:26:48	into the anuses of those who are sick
00:26:51	to disguise the dysentery.
00:26:55	When you reach the plantation,
00:27:01	...and do this.
00:27:04	To let you know that you no longer
00:27:11	Mr Wilberforce, we understand
00:27:16	choosing whether to do the work of God
00:27:19	or the work of a political activist.
00:27:24	We humbly suggest that you can do both.
00:27:56	You planned this.
00:27:59	I've seen the literature
00:28:01	You've stooped to searching
00:28:04	Sir William Dolben told me you'd asked
00:28:14	So, you would use my private concerns
00:28:18	Yes, exactly that.
00:28:25	The principles of Christianity
00:28:29	Allow me to meditate on it
00:28:32	Just think about this, Wilber.
00:28:36	The slave trade
00:28:41	It would be just you against them.
00:28:44	But you could do it.
00:28:48	You would do it.
00:29:10	Oh, stop moaning.
00:29:17	Excuse me, sir.
00:29:21	Do you have a penny
00:29:24	and came back half a man?
00:29:42	Hello, Mr Newton. It's me, William.
00:29:47	Hello, John. How are you?
00:29:52	Hello, John. It's me, Wilber.
00:29:57	I'm here to seek your...
00:30:15	The beggar at the door
00:30:18	to call you John.
00:30:25	You're dressing very simply these days.
00:30:28	I'm a simple man. I try to pretend I am
00:30:33	I'm a monk Mondays, Wednesdays...
00:30:37	When I read your name in the papers,
00:30:42	I still see a tiny boy
00:30:45	and ink on his fingers.
00:30:50	So, what do you want
00:30:54	I'm here to seek your advice.
00:30:57	When you were a child,
00:31:01	Then I grew up. And grew foolish.
00:31:05	And now?
00:31:09	Now... slowly, my faith is returning.
00:31:13	How slowly?
00:31:16	No bolts of lightning.
00:31:19	God sometimes does his work
00:31:25	Drip... drip... drip.
00:31:32	My friend William Pitt
00:31:35	William who?
00:31:38	He's offering me a place in the world.
00:31:41	Just make sure you're in the world,
00:31:46	There'd be no escape from power
00:31:50	- I would have to see things through.
00:31:59	Are you contemplating
00:32:06	Wilber, you have work to do.
00:32:09	Besides, people like you too much
00:32:13	to let you live a life of solitude.
00:32:15	Haven't you chosen solitude?
00:32:17	You, of all people,
00:32:23	There now.
00:32:27	- There now what?
00:32:32	You told me that you live
00:32:38	The ghosts of slaves.
00:32:43	I was explaining to a child
00:32:47	why a grown man cowers in a dark corner.
00:33:00	I need you to tell me about them.
00:33:02	I'm not strong enough
00:33:07	- I thought time might have changed you.
00:33:10	Pitt has asked me
00:33:14	I'm the last person
00:33:17	I can't even say the name
00:33:19	without being back
00:33:23	All I know is 20,000 slaves live
00:33:28	- There's still blood on my hands.
00:33:32	I can't help you.
00:33:35	But do it, Wilber. Do it.
00:33:39	Take them on. Blow their dirty,
00:33:43	The planters, sugar barons,
00:33:45	Alderman "Sugar Cane",
00:33:49	Liverpool, Boston, Bristol, New York.
00:33:52	All their streets running
00:33:59	You won't come away
00:34:03	You'll get filthy with it,
00:34:06	see it in broad daylight.
00:34:09	But do it. For God's sake.
00:34:20	Sir, I have Mr Thomas Clarkson.
00:34:28	Forgive me.
00:34:31	I'd better go and find him.
00:34:53	- Good afternoon.
00:34:58	I had this box made up in the
00:35:03	I thought you could use it
00:35:09	Why did you wait until your butler
00:35:15	They all think I'm mad already.
00:35:20	As will most people
00:35:23	when I present my bill.
00:35:32	Wilberforce, conditions in Jamaica
00:35:35	are far more brutal
00:35:39	Many children are scalded to death
00:35:44	Others die of exhaustion
00:35:49	The result in the morning
00:35:57	Wilberforce, are you all right?
00:36:03	Sit up for me.
00:36:07	Here, drink this.
00:36:16	- What happened?
00:36:20	When I fell asleep,
00:36:25	Perhaps the laudanum
00:36:29	I know the effects of opium, Henry.
00:36:32	- This isn't the medication.
00:36:36	I was chosen for this task and I failed.
00:36:41	Some part of me does not accept
00:36:47	- I'll dilute this.
00:36:52	You've given your youth
00:36:57	It's time to let someone else try.
00:37:20	So, Mr Wilberforce...
00:37:24	...I understand you have
00:37:29	Botany, Miss Spooner? Whatever gives you
00:37:33	in something as tedious as botany?
00:37:49	Sorry. It's a private joke.
00:37:59	Now, Wilber, I know
00:38:03	but there's a fascinating creeping ivy
00:38:09	Barbara, you really must
00:38:12	Go on.
00:38:21	To irritate them,
00:38:24	- What about?
00:38:27	Think of something.
00:38:29	The war in France.
00:38:32	I think we should settle
00:38:36	So do I. Schools.
00:38:39	I'm a member of your movement
00:38:42	I agreed with every word you said
00:38:46	You read every word?
00:38:49	- No.
00:38:54	- Gin.
00:38:58	Absolutely.
00:39:02	I'm definitely alone
00:39:04	No. I joined your society
00:39:07	Well, I'm extreme. I have a pet fox,
00:39:11	I used to have a pet hare,
00:39:14	America.
00:39:17	We must reassess the power
00:39:21	Agreed.
00:39:22	Oh, and, of course,
00:39:24	I'm against flowers in church.
00:39:28	I am for them.
00:39:32	As am I.
00:39:36	I shouldn't talk about the slave trade?
00:39:39	I've spent so many years
00:39:42	So, what are a few more minutes?
00:39:44	When Mr Pitt
00:39:47	the two of you were like meteorites
00:39:51	- Whose imaginations?
00:39:55	You stopped taking sugar in your tea?
00:39:57	I wore an abolition badge
00:40:00	He was a good friend to us.
00:40:02	And I travelled 30 miles in the rain
00:40:06	- Did he deafen you?
00:40:09	- I met the African.
00:40:12	He came to town with a hundred copies
00:40:16	- You signed our petitions.
00:40:18	A hundred times. Three million names,
00:40:23	- Must have been so exciting.
00:40:26	It seemed that every spring
00:40:29	every summer the cherries ripened
00:40:32	and every autumn William Wilberforce
00:40:35	- And still...
00:40:38	And still, after all the badges,
00:40:41	all the speeches and the bills,
00:40:42	ships full of human souls in chains
00:41:07	I'm sorry.
00:41:14	- This is why I shouldn't talk about it.
00:41:21	There. We've found something
00:41:39	"Am I not a man
00:41:43	like water
00:41:46	From Equiano's book.
00:41:49	He was a man like no other.
00:41:53	Please, tell me about him.
00:42:03	It seems to me
00:42:05	that if there is a bad taste
00:42:11	You don't constantly swallow it back.
00:42:24	Not long after I first met him,
00:42:27	he asked me to come
00:42:31	He said there was a ship I should see.
00:42:34	A ship he knew well.
00:42:41	Mr Equiano.
00:42:46	This way.
00:42:54	Thank you, sir.
00:42:56	- Hello.
00:43:23	They make you lie in this space.
00:43:26	The shackles dislocate
00:43:31	You are in pain
00:43:46	How long is the journey?
00:43:48	Three weeks, if the weather is good.
00:43:54	For amusement, they sometimes
00:43:58	by the ankles, to rape them.
00:44:03	In stormy weather,
00:44:06	and throw them into the sea
00:44:16	How did you survive?
00:44:18	Your life is a thread.
00:44:24	Before I travelled in a ship like this,
00:44:27	I was a prince,
00:44:46	It was a beautiful day like no other,
00:44:49	the last day I saw my home in Africa.
00:44:57	It is with a heavy heart
00:44:59	that I bring to the attention
00:45:01	a trade which degrades men
00:45:06	and insults the highest qualities
00:45:12	I am speaking of... the slave trade.
00:45:20	I know that many
00:45:23	have interests in the Indies.
00:45:26	Others have investments in plantations.
00:45:31	And I believe them
00:45:34	I believe you all to be men of humanity.
00:45:38	If the wretchedness of any one
00:45:40	Of the many hundreds of slaves
00:45:43	could be brought to view...
00:45:50	Order! Order!
00:45:53	I can hardly believe my ears.
00:45:56	We can hardly believe your mouth.
00:46:01	It seems my young friend opposite
00:46:06	to destroy the very nation
00:46:12	While I was in Virginia losing
00:46:18	he was busy appeasing them.
00:46:22	Now he would hand over the riches
00:46:34	Lf... If we didn't have slaves,
00:46:40	And with no plantations, how would we
00:46:45	Does my honourable friend
00:46:50	really believe
00:46:54	the French wouldn't immediately step
00:47:11	All this food. There's only
00:47:15	He's an optimist. Completely incurable.
00:47:18	Our defeat in the House today
00:47:21	But our intention
00:47:24	and discover how many people
00:47:27	Yes, well, we certainly found out
00:47:30	All 16 of them.
00:47:32	I... I sent a note of thanks
00:47:36	How sweet of you.
00:47:38	Some of us know
00:47:40	- Something to with with breeding?
00:47:45	Everything that is said at this meeting
00:47:49	My friend James Stephen
00:47:52	You were saying?
00:47:55	As you can see, not many MPs
00:48:00	Indeed, outside my own family,
00:48:04	Sir William, what brings you
00:48:09	I recently took passage from
00:48:15	What I saw during those 15 days...
00:48:20	But I believe there are plenty of others
00:48:24	- They're just afraid to show it.
00:48:27	No shame. No shame. Were I the
00:48:32	how could I tell those whom I represent
00:48:37	Exactly so.
00:48:39	How can human beings be commerce?
00:48:42	- It's exactly this pursuit of lofty...
00:48:47	Please!
00:48:55	Perhaps we should begin this journey
00:48:59	We are talking about the truth.
00:49:02	So we should hand it out to people.
00:49:07	Paint pictures of it. Write songs
00:49:12	Go on.
00:49:14	There is a slave ship at dock in Tilbury
00:49:17	with twice the slave berths
00:49:19	I know that for a fact.
00:49:23	Wilber.
00:49:27	- Dear God.
00:49:35	I've spent 18 months being torn apart
00:49:41	I thought I'd find out
00:49:46	I see you've got plenty of food.
00:49:57	Well, this one bloody does.
00:50:06	Thank you very much.
00:50:18	Agh!
00:50:20	Not fair! Not fair.
00:50:25	I'm not well. My belly.
00:50:28	What's wrong with your belly?
00:50:32	Oh!
00:50:34	Besides, you're prime minister.
00:50:37	It is my ministerial duty
00:50:39	So, what will we do with Fox?
00:50:44	- Put him in a box?
00:50:48	- Provide the shocks.
00:50:54	Oh!
00:50:56	Oh, if the House of Lords could hear
00:51:00	they'd ban anyone under the age of 30
00:51:03	Well, at least with Fox on board,
00:51:09	The world doesn't know yet.
00:51:13	Nor will it, not until we're ready.
00:51:17	You were born for this, Wilber.
00:51:21	Sometimes I get giddy.
00:51:25	Why is it you only feel the thorns
00:51:30	Is that some sort of heavy-handed
00:51:34	Yes, I suppose it is.
00:51:36	We must keep going, keep going fast.
00:52:17	Thank you very much.
00:52:42	Gentlemen, would you stop the music,
00:52:46	Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you have
00:52:51	But now our sojourn is almost over,
00:52:56	This trip wasn't purely arranged
00:53:00	who have supported me in the past year,
00:53:09	- What's he doing?
00:53:11	this is a slave ship. The Madagascar.
00:53:16	It has just returned from the Indies
00:53:19	where it delivered 200 men,
00:53:25	When it left Africa,
00:53:31	The rest died of disease or despair.
00:53:38	That smell is the smell of death.
00:53:43	Slow, painful death.
00:53:48	Breathe it in. Breathe it deeply.
00:53:54	Take those handkerchiefs
00:53:58	There, now.
00:54:02	Remember that smell.
00:54:05	Remember the Madagascar.
00:54:07	Remember that God made men equal.
00:54:16	All that winter,
00:54:20	gathering evidence for Parliament.
00:54:22	Thomas rode to Bristol,
00:54:26	talking to men
00:54:28	ships' doctors who'd treated them,
00:54:31	slaves themselves
00:54:35	Equiano published his account
00:54:42	He sold 50,000 copies in two months.
00:54:54	Spare a coin, sir?
00:54:56	Our supporters began to only buy sugar
00:55:02	Or they stopped using sugar altogether.
00:55:06	It seemed our message was everywhere.
00:55:08	At least now there was hope. Real hope.
00:55:13	We had a year to collect enough evidence
00:55:16	to convince Parliament of our case.
00:55:19	The planters and the ship owners
00:55:24	They called us seditious, secretly
00:55:28	Clarkson sat in a coach to Birmingham
00:55:31	and overheard someone claim
00:55:41	But the weight of our hope
00:55:47	How long have you been taking laudanum?
00:55:53	I recognise its presence.
00:56:04	My illness and my crusade
00:56:09	What is your illness?
00:56:12	The doctors tell me it's called colitis.
00:56:15	They don't really understand it,
00:56:18	You see, sometimes my stomach
00:56:21	gets bored of being a stomach
00:56:24	Then my heart gets jealous
00:56:27	And before you know it,
00:56:31	whether to be lungs
00:56:35	Well, at least that's what I tell
00:56:40	Marianne tells me you like children.
00:56:45	My poor father almost went mad
00:56:47	when I told him
00:56:52	I was 14,
00:56:55	reading your name in the papers,
00:56:59	I told my friends there was actual
00:57:11	Has this been so painful to talk about?
00:57:14	It's only painful to talk about
00:57:19	But, unlike the slaves,
00:00:05	I thought everyone was in bed.
00:00:08	She brings the breakfasts.
00:00:11	Does it matter?
00:00:27	That year we should have won.
00:00:30	With the evidence we had collected,
00:00:37	Winds blow ships
00:00:41	as if the route were blessed by God.
00:00:45	Another argument in defence of the trade
00:00:48	is that the Newfoundland
00:00:54	by the fact that slaves
00:00:59	consume that part of the fish
00:01:02	which is fit for no other consumption.
00:01:08	I do feel that if my honourable friend
00:01:10	continues to scrape the bottom
00:01:14	he is in danger of getting splinters
00:01:20	Now, if I may continue
00:01:22	As representative
00:01:26	commercial town of Liverpool,
00:01:28	I must once again remind the House
00:01:33	that the Africans themselves
00:01:42	I have here an account
00:01:48	...which states
00:01:52	have a snug little garden
00:01:57	There are many poor families
00:02:03	Which... Which is why,
00:02:06	apart from a few mendicant physicians
00:02:11	the ordinary people of Britain
00:02:15	by the whole issue of slavery.
00:02:19	My honourable friend,
00:02:22	seeks evidence of people's concern.
00:02:25	In the past year, I and my
00:02:29	have been gathering just such evidence.
00:02:33	We have taken a petition calling
00:02:38	to all the great cities of this country.
00:02:42	It has been signed
00:02:57	However, this petition
00:03:00	There is one more person
00:03:17	Do something.
00:03:22	Mr Speaker,
00:03:25	while we take time to examine
00:03:30	There is something very provoking
00:03:32	in the calm way
00:03:35	- Mr Speaker, will he not give way?
00:03:40	- Please, gentlemen.
00:03:42	- You bring petitions into the House...
00:03:46	...as if this country should be
00:03:50	- rather than its natural rulers!
00:03:53	That roll of paper reeks of rebellion!
00:03:56	No matter how loud you shout, you will
00:04:03	The people?
00:04:09	This session will be suspended
00:04:17	Wilber.
00:04:45	My spies tell me that Tarleton
00:04:48	have gone to see the Home Secretary.
00:04:52	- What would they want with Lord Dundas?
00:04:57	James. James.
00:05:00	- Where does Lord Dundas stand?
00:05:06	We have him down as a probable.
00:05:08	Last year he stopped the deportation
00:05:12	- so his heart's in the right place.
00:05:19	If he's capable of compassion once,
00:05:24	What damage could he do if he's turned?
00:05:27	He controls the Scottish vote, 34 MPs.
00:05:34	We'll have to have faith
00:05:40	Integrity?
00:05:48	Where are you going?
00:05:50	To look up the word "integrity"
00:05:56	Come.
00:05:59	Prime Minister,
00:06:07	You look more at home
00:06:12	Prime Minister, your friend Wilberforce
00:06:18	No. He resigned from all five card clubs
00:06:21	Pity. He was good.
00:06:23	Well, I think there's a hand
00:06:29	- Against whom?
00:06:36	So name him.
00:06:48	Good evening.
00:06:59	Billy, did I not win enough money
00:07:04	Really, I have no time for cards.
00:07:17	As prime minister, idle gossip collects
00:07:23	What have you heard?
00:07:25	Lord Tarleton's throwing
00:07:28	at people who are speaking
00:07:32	Of course, no true friend of mine
00:07:38	I appear to have three jacks.
00:07:41	I've always ensured that
00:07:45	- Are you threatening me?
00:07:50	It isn't money that has made me decide
00:07:54	His enemy is my enemy.
00:07:56	You are sleepwalking
00:07:59	Wilberforce follows no leader
00:08:05	How much were you offered?
00:08:08	Keep yourjacks.
00:08:10	The planters still have the king,
00:08:16	Don't force me
00:08:21	Well, if you do,
00:08:24	one from each side.
00:08:27	And perhaps if I duck,
00:08:45	Order.
00:08:48	Order.
00:08:53	First, let me be clear.
00:08:56	After long consideration
00:09:00	I am in favour
00:09:07	There's no doubt in my mind
00:09:12	is an almighty calumny
00:09:18	However... I also take the point
00:09:24	the member for Liverpool.
00:09:26	If we were to outlaw the trade tomorrow,
00:09:30	to many cities
00:09:36	I therefore suggest
00:09:41	After a year and a half
00:09:44	what good would it do
00:09:47	Inevitable? Is my honourable friend
00:09:51	I didn't mean that.
00:09:54	If the trade were to be abolished,
00:09:59	Violent storms sink ships.
00:10:05	This great ship of state
00:10:08	by a wave of good intentions.
00:10:35	They are cleverer than us, Thomas.
00:10:40	And yet...
00:10:43	...outside the House of Commons,
00:10:47	And what good is that?
00:10:51	I have friends in France.
00:10:55	Our counterparts.
00:11:00	- They bring me only good news.
00:11:05	Revolution.
00:11:08	They're certain it's coming.
00:11:12	In Paris they speak openly
00:11:15	Freedom for all men, and women too.
00:11:20	The Americans pulled the cork
00:11:24	Now the French share the wine.
00:11:26	You talk about revolution
00:11:29	It's just a word.
00:11:30	Every day we change things, by degrees.
00:11:34	By degrees.
00:11:38	An imperfect order's
00:11:40	We must fight for a perfect order!
00:11:46	I've pledged an allegiance to the king.
00:11:51	You know as well as I do...
00:11:57	He shakes hands with oak trees
00:11:59	and claims he can see Germany
00:12:07	I know you have
00:12:10	but underneath it
00:12:15	You see, you never doubt you're right.
00:12:19	What we say of the slave
00:12:24	the weaver, the miner.
00:12:27	Shouldn't they be free to prosper too,
00:12:32	instead of the fruits of their labours
00:12:35	Men who spend their money
00:12:43	Young girls debauched.
00:12:49	Soldiers forced to beg.
00:12:53	It's a natural wave
00:12:59	First Boston, then Paris.
00:13:04	Next London.
00:13:06	Thomas...
00:13:09	...you must never speak of revolution
00:13:26	I'm going to Paris to see for myself.
00:13:33	Why don't you come with me?
00:13:37	Drink some of that wine?
00:13:53	Africa, your sufferings
00:13:57	that has engaged and arrested my heart.
00:14:02	Your sufferings...
00:14:05	...no tongue can express,
00:14:11	Agh!
00:14:19	God has set before me two great objects:
00:14:24	The suppression of the slave trade
00:14:27	and the reformation of society.
00:14:30	Agh! Agh!
00:14:40	Sir!
00:14:43	Marjorie.
00:14:47	The trouble is, Doctor,
00:14:51	Utterly careless of it. He, um...
00:14:54	He thinks
00:14:59	Perhaps you should spend some time
00:15:04	- What's this?
00:15:07	An opiate? No, no, no.
00:15:10	You need to rest.
00:15:12	My bill is before the House
00:15:15	- Would you leave us a moment, Doctor?
00:15:25	It's now five years since you first
00:15:28	And each time we get a little closer.
00:15:31	Wilberforce, there are other MPs
00:15:36	Who? Name one.
00:15:41	The only man I would trust is you.
00:15:48	Well?
00:15:49	I can't be seen
00:15:51	when the streets of Paris
00:15:53	You've read too many
00:15:56	The French Republic
00:15:59	- On who?
00:16:03	You're locked inside your own head! Us,
00:16:12	Considering the situation,
00:16:17	- Who do I mix with?
00:16:20	- Who introduced me to Clarkson?
00:16:29	They say in the cafés
00:16:33	And Equiano,
00:16:38	and as an American,
00:16:46	Others say
00:16:49	letters addressed to you
00:16:53	- On matters to do with abolition.
00:16:57	- Even friendships?
00:17:01	So you will keep
00:17:04	and let the rest of us
00:17:09	Conscience is indeed precious.
00:17:11	I am warning you as your prime minister
00:17:13	that when war comes,
00:17:18	By who?
00:17:24	By you?
00:17:48	This evening I would like to return
00:17:53	In these dangerous times, it is easy to
00:17:59	simply to confirm
00:18:02	But the issues of war and the issues
00:18:08	Our fear of an unknown enemy
00:18:11	to erode our long-cherished liberties.
00:18:14	If this is to happen,
00:18:20	We must not prohibit all political
00:18:26	The issue of slavery
00:18:30	by the unrelated issues of war!
00:18:32	In war or in peace, the buying
00:18:37	is equally abhorrent!
00:18:40	This is not a seditious statement!
00:19:01	Where is your laudanum?
00:19:03	No. No, I want to tell you how it ends.
00:19:07	I already know.
00:19:13	Equiano... died in his bed.
00:19:17	Thomas Clarkson found a cottage
00:19:21	Charles Fox watched and waited.
00:19:26	The Quakers still sent their letters.
00:19:33	Is that the end of your story?
00:19:36	- You think not?
00:19:39	- Why not?
00:19:44	The people aren't so afraid
00:19:48	And when they stop being afraid,
00:19:53	So the people
00:19:56	And you still have passion.
00:20:00	That matters more.
00:20:18	- Good morning, Wilber.
00:20:21	- Get much sleep?
00:20:24	- What time did Barbara leave?
00:20:27	I mean, early.
00:20:32	I'm afraid I'm going back to London.
00:20:35	- So soon?
00:20:37	I think the waters
00:20:40	But I need to send a letter
00:20:43	- To ask him to come back to England.
00:20:46	To put his evidence
00:20:52	Also, Barbara and I have discovered
00:20:54	that we're both impatient
00:20:58	But she wants
00:21:36	Ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:40	we will sing the hymn
00:21:50	# Amazing Grace
00:21:54	# How sweet the sound
00:21:57	# That saved a wretch like me
00:22:03	# I once was lost
00:22:07	# But now am found
00:22:11	# Was blind but now I see...
00:22:22	- Delightful service.
00:22:25	Thank you.
00:22:28	"Great changes
00:22:31	- Francis Bacon.
00:22:36	- Have you forgiven us yet?
00:22:38	It'll be wonderful
00:22:41	Thank you.
00:22:42	I do hope you didn't come to Clapham
00:22:46	- We're very noisy neighbours.
00:23:04	Barbara.
00:23:07	- You have my deepest condolences.
00:23:13	But please, I beg of you, do this
00:23:17	- Oh, I rather like them.
00:23:29	- If you'll excuse me...
00:23:32	You're discussing politics
00:23:34	You may as well do it with your mouths.
00:23:48	I, uh... didn't think you'd invite me.
00:23:51	Didn't think you'd come.
00:23:56	- You well?
00:24:00	The rest of me is fraying at the edges.
00:24:06	Billy, I'm going to try again.
00:24:10	Well?
00:24:11	It's your wedding day.
00:24:15	I never changed.
00:24:17	- I don't change.
00:24:21	The mood may even be
00:24:26	How can we live in houses like this
00:24:31	Is that still sedition?
00:24:36	As your prime minister, I urge caution.
00:24:38	- And as my friend?
00:24:44	When the slaves
00:24:48	their arms are tied
00:24:53	and weights of 56 pounds
00:24:58	applied to their feet.
00:25:02	The crane is raised
00:25:06	so that their feet
00:25:11	The slaves are then whipped
00:25:14	with ebony bushes, comma...
00:25:21	...to let out the congealing blood.
00:25:25	I don't hear the nib
00:25:28	We have company, sir.
00:25:31	John, it's me, Wilber.
00:25:38	Leave it.
00:25:50	They only told me your sight was fading.
00:25:52	Well, now it's faded altogether.
00:25:55	I never did things by halves.
00:25:59	- So it's true.
00:26:03	- You're writing your account.
00:26:08	I wish I could see your face.
00:26:14	- How are you looking?
00:26:17	- Still too thin.
00:26:21	She feeds you well then,
00:26:24	- She's given me an appetite.
00:26:38	This is my confession.
00:26:41	You must use it.
00:26:44	Names, ships' records,
00:26:48	ports, people.
00:26:51	Everything I remember is in here.
00:26:55	Although my memory is fading,
00:26:57	I remember two things very clearly:
00:27:00	I'm a great sinner
00:27:05	You must publish it.
00:27:08	Blow a hole in their boat with it.
00:27:14	I wish I could remember all their names.
00:27:19	My 20,000 ghosts,
00:27:23	they all had names.
00:27:26	Beautiful African names.
00:27:31	We called them with just grunts.
00:27:35	Noises.
00:27:38	We were apes. They were human.
00:27:50	I'm weeping.
00:27:54	I couldn't weep till I wrote this.
00:28:04	"I once was blind, but now I see. "
00:28:09	Didn't I write that too?
00:28:11	Yes, you did.
00:28:13	Well, now at last it's true.
00:28:18	Now go, Wilber. Go.
00:28:21	We have lots of work to do, you and I.
00:28:32	"Strange treasures
00:28:37	strange all and new to me. "
00:28:44	That is a poem by Thomas Traherne,
00:28:46	and I have absolutely no idea
00:28:49	But when I was small,
00:28:52	so I don't see
00:28:54	Clarkson! Clarkson!
00:29:00	Good God, he's got his voice back.
00:29:02	We need you back in London straightaway!
00:29:04	Oh.
00:29:07	Bollocks.
00:29:11	Hurry up, come on.
00:29:30	Wilber!
00:29:37	- You look fine. Fine.
00:29:41	You, however, look disgustingly like
00:29:45	Come on. I've got a coach. The others
00:29:50	- Don't I get to wash or sleep?
00:29:53	You haven't changed at all, William.
00:30:09	I called this meeting to welcome back
00:30:13	But he should speak for himself.
00:30:16	I have here diagrams,
00:30:19	first-hand accounts
00:30:23	where innocent Africans have been
00:30:28	and were then burnt alive.
00:30:30	There are pages and pages and pages
00:30:34	of first-hand accounts
00:30:38	On every island now,
00:30:41	Haiti is in the hands of slaves.
00:30:44	And the slaves are anxious.
00:30:47	They hear about your work here.
00:30:51	I saw a woman and her child
00:30:56	...in a coffee field.
00:30:59	Afterwards,
00:31:01	that someone was coming
00:31:06	She said it was King Wilberforce.
00:31:14	So this time, gentlemen,
00:31:26	What is it, James?
00:31:29	- This is not a game for them.
00:31:32	What I mean is, it's not enough.
00:31:39	If we go to Parliament
00:31:42	there'll be sympathy,
00:31:45	but it'll be just the same
00:31:48	Have you come back
00:31:51	No. No, I've had an idea.
00:31:55	In my law books
00:31:58	and I want to propose it as a strategy.
00:32:02	Nosus Decipio.
00:32:05	It's Latin.
00:32:07	Loosely translated, it means...
00:32:12	..."we cheat".
00:32:49	Oh, God.
00:32:56	I don't care how important this is.
00:32:59	I'll finish my shot.
00:33:07	Oh, for God's sakes, what is it?
00:33:09	- We've decided...
00:33:13	We've decided not
00:33:16	- No?
00:33:19	We're going to address the issue of
00:33:23	- How unutterably dull.
00:33:26	We're going to suggest
00:33:29	sailing under
00:33:32	be liable to seizure by privateers.
00:33:34	Part of the war effort.
00:33:37	Patriotism, all that.
00:33:39	Since when have you been interested in
00:33:46	I'm not.
00:33:49	So... I'll continue with my game?
00:33:58	You don't see anything sinister
00:34:03	No.
00:34:06	- Then neither will they.
00:34:11	80 percent of all slave ships
00:34:14	are flying the neutral American flag
00:34:16	to prevent them
00:34:19	If we pass a law
00:34:22	no ship owner will allow his vessel
00:34:25	This will only apply
00:34:28	That's the beauty of it.
00:34:30	Once any ship raises the American flag,
00:34:35	So our slave ships will be just
00:34:38	The privateers won't care
00:34:42	as long as they're operating
00:34:44	Without the protection of neutral flags,
00:34:48	80 percent of the British slave trade
00:34:52	Dear God.
00:34:54	But Prime Minister, we need to...
00:34:57	...tuck this bill away somewhere.
00:35:02	Disguise it. Oh.
00:35:06	I won't even get on my feet
00:35:08	This would still
00:35:11	With their profits cut, half the slavers
00:35:16	Then we'll pick off their MPs
00:35:19	Whose idea was this?
00:35:23	A lawyer.
00:35:26	Anti-French bill
00:35:34	Don't know why
00:35:41	Oh...
00:35:42	But we can't let anyone know
00:35:45	Instruct someone to put this bill
00:35:49	We don't want any fuss.
00:35:51	We just need someone
00:35:59	Typically, a French ship
00:36:03	to raise the American flag
00:36:08	It will then sail to Carolina
00:36:12	or Virginia or Florida
00:36:16	or New York City or even Boston.
00:36:21	The cargo will then be unloaded
00:36:25	carrying the American flag
00:36:30	As things stand, neither the Royal Navy
00:36:36	have power to seize such a ship.
00:36:40	My proposition is
00:36:41	that all the ships
00:36:46	be liable to search and seizure
00:36:49	to put an end to this lamentable deceit
00:36:52	on the part of the French
00:36:54	and their Dutch and Spanish allies.
00:36:56	Mr Speaker! I believe the abolitionists
00:37:00	A side wind? What kind of side wind?
00:37:04	I'm not sure what kind of side wind.
00:37:09	- The Jacobites are in.
00:37:13	Really, I do think you might update your
00:37:18	Am I too late
00:37:28	Of course you are.
00:37:32	Now, will you let
00:37:35	As I was saying...
00:37:39	...my proposition is that
00:37:45	be liable to search and seizure
00:37:49	on the part of the French,
00:38:00	- Jackson, get into the chamber.
00:38:03	Camber, chamber! Move your arse!
00:38:06	- What's going on?
00:38:38	Where the hell is everyone?
00:38:40	Everybody's at the races in Epsom.
00:38:45	I saved one for you.
00:38:58	Wilby?
00:39:03	What on earth is happening?
00:39:07	- I'll bring your laudanum.
00:39:11	I've poured it all away this morning.
00:39:14	- Then I'll fetch more.
00:39:19	I can't even feel the joy
00:39:24	This new baby will find me as myself.
00:39:28	- What will be his name?
00:39:31	Just tell me some names.
00:39:34	William, if it's a boy.
00:39:37	It's... it's a boy. I'm sure of it.
00:39:40	- How will he look?
00:39:45	He will be strong with curly hair,
00:39:50	- He's inside you now.
00:39:54	I can almost hear him.
00:39:57	Yes, he will have a fine voice like you.
00:40:00	Yes, yes, a strong voice.
00:40:02	And you will play with him
00:40:05	- Yes.
00:40:09	And a girl and a boy and...
00:40:24	Wilby!
00:40:28	Come quickly!
00:40:32	Come on!
00:40:49	Please leave us now.
00:41:02	They tell me you're improving, Billy.
00:41:05	Bull.
00:41:16	We cracked crowns, didn't we?
00:41:18	- We left the heads intact.
00:41:29	- We have agreed on a succession.
00:41:34	I will be replaced by Lord Granville
00:41:40	and the foreign secretary
00:41:45	And Wilber,
00:41:48	Fox has already secured
00:41:53	They will remain neutral
00:41:59	Next time you will be pushing
00:42:13	I'm scared, Wilber.
00:42:18	Of what?
00:42:20	At this moment, I wish I had your faith.
00:42:30	No more excuses now, Wilber.
00:42:35	Finish them off.
00:42:48	As you know, Equiano, I rarely drink.
00:42:52	But today's an exception.
00:42:57	Today we're drinking to victory.
00:43:11	Wish you were...
00:43:14	...here to see all this... unfolding.
00:43:21	Just one more push.
00:43:26	One more.
00:44:12	I say to this House
00:44:16	why my bill should not be
00:44:21	And I urge my honourable
00:44:26	for the abolition of the slave trade
00:44:29	Throughout His Majesty's empire.
00:44:32	They're taking the vote!
00:44:47	Here's the tally.
00:45:29	Order!
00:45:31	Order!
00:45:36	On the Home and Foreign Slave Trade Act,
00:45:41	the unamended bill calling for
00:45:45	throughout the entire British Empire.
00:45:49	No's to the left: 16.
00:45:53	Ayes to the right: 283.
00:46:03	I declare the bill of abolition
00:46:22	Noblesse oblige.
00:46:25	What the bloody hell does that mean?
00:46:27	It means my nobility obliges me
00:46:29	to recognise the virtue
00:46:39	Order!
00:46:42	Order!
00:46:56	When people speak of great men,
00:46:59	they think of men like Napoleon.
00:47:03	Men of violence.
00:47:06	Rarely do they think of peaceful men.
00:47:11	But contrast
00:47:13	when they return home
00:47:16	Napoleon will arrive
00:47:20	A man who's achieved
00:47:25	Yet his dreams will be haunted
00:47:31	William Wilberforce, however,
00:47:34	will return to his family,
00:47:37	lay his head on his pillow
00:47:40	and remember
00:47:43	the slave trade is no more.

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