The Legend of Nigger Charley
The Legend of Nigger Charley is a 1972 blaxploitation western film directed by Martin Goldman. The story of a trio of escaped slaves, it was released during the heyday of blaxploitation films.
An aging and dying plantation owner is deep in debt. Another man of the nature of Simon Legre is in the process of taking control of the estate and selling off the slaves to other plantation owners. The dying owner, however has freed Charley, giving him a paper that frees him. The Simon equivalent takes his paper and tears it up, beating Charlie, tying him up, intent on selling him despite his having been freed. The white man is drunk and goes to where Charlie is presumed to still be tied up, awaiting sale. Charlie is free of his bonds however and when attacked he defends himself and kills the white man. Two other slaves had already prepared to escape and were waiting for Charlie with three horses when the fight occurred and they flee together, pursued a few hours later by a group of vigilantes led by a man with a reputation as a slave hunterkiller.The three fugitives are repeatedly denigrated when they engage in everyday activities. For instance, when Charley asks a bartender for three beers, he is asked, Dont you know your place, nigger? In response, Charley beats a patron and forces the bartender to flee. He then tells his friends, I aint never gonna be a slave again for no man ... I aint taking no shit from no white man again. Im a free man, and thats the way Im gonna die. ........
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