Walk With You - Scene 20

Walk With You

Scene 20

Dr. Emerson is fired from the Army

The lady of the house on Morgan street.

Music: Brilliant Disguise by Bruce Springsteen

FADE IN:

St. Louis, Missouri - 1842

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

At the Emerson plantation on the outskirts of St. Louis, Doctor and Irene Emerson are discussing their financial situation.

Dr. Emerson has recently been fired from the Army.

They discuss the unthinkable as far as Dr. Emerson is concerned.

The selling of our family to pay their mounting debts.

DR JOHN EMERSON

I don’t know what we are going to do Irene. Our financial situation is getting worst.

IRENE EMERSON

Our slaves are worth more than anything else we own.

Little Eliza is worth thousands of dollars to us.

DR JOHN EMERSON

Irene, they are providing us with money as we lease them out.

I would prefer that we not sell them.

IRENE EMERSON

That is not enough John.

I have needs.

You can understand that I cannot be seen without a new dress this coming Spring.

If you are not man enough I will take care of this.

DR JOHN EMERSON

No Irene, this is my responsibility.

FADE TO - Panoramic view of the dark streets of St. Louis, Missouri near the docks of the Mississippi River. Focus down on a buggy traveling through the narrow streets as it is raining.

CUT TO - INSIDE OF A Horse drawn Buggy

Mrs. Emerson gets out of the Buggy and quickly knocks on the door on the corner of Morgan and Garrison streets. A woman opens the door.

MORGAN STREET WOMAN

State your business.

IRENE EMERSON

I own a slave baby. I wish to sell it.

MORGAN STREET WOMAN

Is the baby with you?

IRENE EMERSON

No. How much is it worth?

MORGAN STREET WOMAN

I need to see it first.

IRENE EMERSON

I will bring it tomorrow.

FADE TO - Panoramic view of the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri. Pan down to Henry Taylor Blow house near the Mississippi River.

Walk With You - Scene 17

Walk With You

Scene 17

Fort Jesup, Louisiana - 1838

Eliza Irene Sanford.

1,000 mile journey down the Mississippi River.

Music: The Ash Grove - Welsh Folk Song

SUPER IN

Ft. Jesup, Louisiana

Fort Jesup is near the border between Louisiana and Texas.

It is a wilderness in bayou country, wet and hot.

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Dr. Emerson meets Eliza Irene Sanford the youngest daughter from a prominent St. Louis family who is visiting the fort in the winter.

Sanford came from a family that as a rule did not free slaves.

The Sanfords only sold a slave when he or she became too troublesome to keep

Eliza Irene Sanford marries Dr. Emerson in February 1838.

Mississippi River, 1838

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Dr. Emerson summons us,  we are still at Ft. Snelling, Minnesota territory.

We go rafting over one thousand miles down the mighty Mississippi River.

As we travel in the waters of free territories we have to decide whether to seek freedom or return to Dr. Emerson at Ft. Jessup.

Dred says that we should continue to Ft. Jessup. I convince him that if we have children that he should reconsider our freedom.

FADE TO - Panoramic view of the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Missouri.

Walk With You - Harriet

Walk With You

Scene 16

Harriet

A wedding

Music: Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

SUPER IN

Fort Snelling

Inside the fort there is interaction between the Dakota’s and the soldiers.

FADE IN:

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

It wasn't long after Dred arrived that we fall in love.

FADE IN:

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Major Taliaferro, Harriet's owner unites Dred and Harriet in a small wedding ceremony.

The wedding is called jumping the broom which they did after exchanging vows.

Now they were known as Dr. Emerson's slaves

Henry Taylor Blow goes to work for Joseph Charless, Charlotte's husband.

Henry, Elizabeth, Taylor, and William Blow are all living with the Charless’s.

FADE TO: Dred and Harriet Scott canoeing down the Mississippi River  

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Walk With You - Scene 12

Walk With You

Scene 12

2016

Jefferson Hotel

St. Louis College

Jefferson Barracks

Music: The Ash Grove - Welsh Folk Song

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

St. Louis in the 1830’s was a blooming City.

The levee along the Mississippi River was lined with steamboats that were arriving at a rate of 100 per day.

Charlotte Blow and her sisters Elizabeth and Martha were wearing their best gowns.

They looked on as the elite of St. Louis society were dancing on the steamer Atlantic.

Charlotte was destined to meet her husband Joseph at this dance. Eighteen months later they would be married.

Her family had arrived in May of 1830 with the hopes to open a hotel.

FADE IN:

Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

With the last of their money, the Blow's rent a large dwelling.

They call it the Jefferson Hotel, run by Peter Blow. It is their last hope.

Dred Scott carries the guests bags from the Riverboats to the hotel.

Dred gathers coal to heat the guests rooms.

The guests stop and watch the slave auctions and view the slave pens.

AUCTIONEER

How much is offered for this woman?

SLAVE

Crying

AUCTIONEER

She is a good cook and an obedient servant.

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Henry, Taylor, and William Blow enroll in the St. Louis College.  

The college opened in 1829 and was the first institution of Higher Learning west of the Mississippi.

Peter Blow business fails within 6 months. They are penniless.

There is an auction to sell the furniture.

Dred is sold to Dr. John Emerson, a Yankee from Pennsylvania.

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Emerson is pale and gangly, over 6 ft 4 inches tall.

Dred and the doctor are stationed at Jefferson Barracks.

Fade to: Wedding ceremony in St. Louis

Walk With You

Scene 10

Alabama slave auction

Phyllis is sold

Music: Funeral for a friend / Love lies bleeding - Elton John

FADE IN:

Huntsville, Alabama 1824

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

Peter Blow, after several years was forced to give up farming in Alabama.

He had to sell the Huntsville farm and Dred's first wife Phyllis to pay Peter Blow's debts.

Dred could not bear to see his wife sold at the auction.

He runs away, is caught, brutally whipped, and sent back to Peter Blow.

FADE TO - Florence, Alabama and the Peter Blow Inn

Walk With You

Scene 08

Southampton County, Virginia

Peter Blow Plantation

The Appalachian Trial

Alabama

Music: Once upon a long ago - Paul McCartney

FADE IN:

Bethlehem Crossroads

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

The Peter Blow family along with Dred Scott and his Virginia family gaze at their beautiful Virginia Plantation for the last time.

PETER BLOW

A new adventure in our lives awaits us my love.

ELIZABETH BLOW

The children are behind you.

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

They begin the hundreds of miles caravan down the Appalachian trail to Huntsville, Alabama.

HARRIET SCOTT (V.O.)

The caravan of 3 horse drawn carts, their Nottoway Indian guides, and farm animals start their journey over mountains, across streams, and wilderness to Alabama.

While we were still in Virginia the Nottoway guides gave us an assortment of seeds.

They taught us how to plant the three sisters: Maize, Squash, and Beans.

FADE TO - Panoramic view of the miles and miles of Cotton fields of Alabama.

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