12 Years a Slave (2013)
Christopher Berry: Burch
Quotes
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Burch : Yah a slave. Yah a Georgia slave!
[savagely beats Solomon until his paddle breaks. He switches to a whip and continues]
Burch : Are yah a slave?
Solomon Northup : No.
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Burch : Well, my boy, how yah feel now?
Solomon Northup : I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...
Burch : Yah not any...
Solomon Northup : And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.
Burch : Resolve this. Produce your papers.
[Solomon searches and finds no papers]
Burch : Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway nigger from Georgia.