Red is convinced that the rock-hammer would be useless in tunneling out: "It would take a man about six hundred years to tunnel under the wall with one of these.And, when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about."The black sheep of a good family from Charleston, and urned out of West Point, Rhett expresses his lone dissent from the optimistic voices.You""re the kind of a person who never gives in a relationship - who only takes.(Sardonically) Ah, woman, the incomplete sex.And what does she need to complete her? (Mocking) Why, man, of course.A wonderful man.Hammer: All right, all right, let it go.That bus stop will be comin"" up pretty soon and I don""t even know your name.Christina: You forget.I""m a loony from the laughing house.All loonies are dangerous.Ever read poetry? No, of course you wouldn""t.Christina Rossetti wrote love sonnets.I was named after her.Hammer: Christina?Christina: Yes, Mike.I got your name from the registration certificate, Mr.Hammer.Get me to that bus stop and forget you ever saw me.If we don""t make that bus stop...Hammer: (confidently) We will.Christina:...if we don""t, ""Remember me.""At that instant, a barrier waylays their car - they are run off the road by a black car.Unknown and faceless, darkly-dressed gangsters, viewed from the waist down with closeups of their shoes, approach.An image of Africans being brought to America and sold at auction in the South follows the title.The rise of the abolitionist movement of the 19th century demands the freeing of the slaves.Then, in pre-Civil War 1860, the film dramatically focuses on two families.The Northern Stoneman family (of Washington D.C., with a country home in Pennsylvania) is led by imposing parliamentary leader, the Hon.Austin Stoneman (Ralph Lewis), an abolitionist leader in the National House of representatives [in a role patterned after Pennsylvanian Senator Thaddeus Stevens, the Radical Republican leader and anti-slavery crusader].