Band of Angels (1957)

Jim Hayward: Sheriff

Quotes 

• Sheriff : I can't say I like what I gotta do; but, I call you all to witness. Do you state and affirm that you go by the name of Amantha Starr?

  Amantha Starr : Certainly, that's my name.

  Sheriff : Amantha, it is sworn and affirmed that you are the issue of the body of a slave called Louisa, the chattel of Aaron Pendleton Starr, deceased. And as her issue, you are declared by the law of this Commonwealth, to be a chattel of Starrwood, subject to any claims against the estate.

  Amantha Starr : My mother?

  Mr. Calloway : She was a Negress. And that means you the same strap as the rest of them slaves out yonder.