Mary Epps
Where you from, Platt?
Solomon Northup
I have told you.
Mary Epps
Tell me again.
Solomon Northup
Washington.
Mary Epps
Who were your Master?
Solomon Northup
Master name of Freeman.
Mary Epps
Was he a learned man?
Solomon Northup
I suppose so.
Mary Epps
He learn you to read?
Solomon Northup
A word here or there, but I have no understanding of the written text.
Mary Epps
Don't trouble yourself with it. Same as the rest, Master bought you to work, that's all. Any more'll earn you a hundred lashes.
