12 Years a Slave - Struggle with Faith and Suffering
Edwin Epps: [about an outbreak of [[w:Cotton worm|Cotton worm]
A plague! It's damn Biblical. Two season God done sent a plague to smite me. I am near ruination. Why, Treach? What I done that God hate me so? Do I not preach His word?
Treach:
The whole Bayou sufferin'.
Edwin Epps: [looks at the slaves]
I don't care nothin fer the damn Bayou. I'm sufferin'. It's that Godless lot. They brought this on me. I bring em God's word, and heathens they are, they brung me God's scorn.
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