12 Years a Slave (2013)

Christopher Berry: Burch

Quotes 

• 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.

• 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.