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(LEVI goes deep in thought thinking as BASS gives him a comforting pat on the back then takes a seat at the TABLE)
LEVI
What `bout you Silas. Where bout you from.
SILAS
Indiana. Born few years after the war ended. Family migrated
there from Mississippi. Got some nice school'n from a Negro woman named Miss Norwood. Taught me how to read - write, make my own decisions on what I wanted to do with myself. Daddy would tell me stories as little boy. How he was beaten. Starved. How his first wife was whipped so hard that her heart stopped right then and there as he watched. Would tell me all the time how blessed I am to live free. To live every second knowing a Negro is somewhere lying under dirt so I can breathe this air as a free man. Never take it granted he’d say.
(LEVI picks up the BOTTLE from the TABLE and pours a drink. He raises it in the air)
LEVI
To freedom. And those who died for us - so we can live to
tell their story.
Freedom. Freedom.
All done Levi.
Feel better. Much better.
(All men excluding SILAS lift their glasses to the sky)
BASS SILAS/GRANT
(They all down their drinks. Suddenly GUS walks in)
GUS
(LEVI approaches GUS) LEVI
GUS
23.