In this clip, a slave is punished by whipping for stealing a book. Whipping was a punishment that could be deadly, as shown by the later wounds on the slave's back.

In this clip, TJ is brutally whipped by the overseer as a punishment for running from the plantation.

TJ gets auctioned off with other slaves. The white buyers discuss how well they will work in the field.

The protagonist, TJ, is apprehended by two slave catchers, who call him racial slurs and explain how he has no rights as a black man in the Antebellum South.

This clip shows how slaves needed "passes" to travel from their plantation, to demonstrate that they were not escaping.