1:00:01
The wrath of the white father
in washington rained down
1:00:04
and became a flood that
could not be stopped.
1:00:09
Everything seemed to be disappearing
into a great hole in the earth.
1:00:14
The vision of growling
bear was coming to pass.
1:00:19
Loved by the buffalo was afraid.
1:00:27
6 years later
1:00:28
Jacob: The west is a
place not a way to live.
1:00:32
Others would come to these lands seeking
to escape the growing darkness back east,
1:00:36
Lawrence, Kansas Territory
1:00:37
but the shadows would follow them,
1:00:39
as they did uncle benjamin's
son, samson,and his family,
1:00:42
the next wheelers to set their wagons
toward the promise of the setting sun.
1:00:47
It's done, pa, just like
you said it would be.
1:00:49
Lincoln elected president.
1:00:50
South carolina to secede from the union.
1:00:52
This wheel could use a rim, jeremiah.
1:00:55
Yes, sir.
1:00:57
I measured it out for you.
1:00:59
Like i was saying, sir, if there's
work, I'm looking to get hired on.
1:01:03
I been pounding iron a long time now.
1:01:06
I even had me my own shop on
the plantation where I was born.
1:01:09
Now, I done fixed wheels, shod horses.
1:01:12
I even turned me some real nice
french quarter banisters, too.
1:01:15
Mm-hmm.
1:01:16
I been freed by my master,
and I got papers to prove it.
1:01:19
If it's food you need...
1:01:20
with all due respect, sir,
1:01:22
I'll be working harder
and faster than 2 men,
1:01:24
and I don't expect much,
1:01:26
just some place to lay my
head when the day's done.
1:01:28
He could have the room at
the back of the shop, pa.
1:01:30
I'll work for nothing till you see
I ain't lying about what I can do.
1:01:36
What's your name?
1:01:38
Henry.
1:01:39
Henry foster, sir.
1:01:42
My sons, aaron and jeremiah.
1:01:45
Shake hands, boys.
1:01:48
The lord did not intend for these western
1:01:50
lands to be cursed with
the scourge of slavery.
1:01:53
Virginia may be lost, but we must
endeavor to make sure kansas stays free.
1:01:59
Samson wheeler.