- We start with some captions asking not to be censored (we think someone doth protest too much), followed by text stating that "the bringing of the African to America planted the first seed of disunion."
- Well…that's one way to put it. Another way to put it is "slavery was insanely awful and at the top of the list of global atrocities."
- We're then taken to a slave auction while a preacher prays over an African. Another caption talks about how abolitionists advocated for the freeing of slaves in the 1800's. We see one such revival meeting, replete with weeping parishioners.
- Another caption describes a "great parliamentary leader" named Austin Stoneman, who rose to power in 1860. We're about to meet him, along with his daughter Elsie.
- There they are. Elsie is helping Austin delicately place on his wig.
- We flash forward to find Elsie and her brothers on the family estate in Pennsylvania. The bros are reading a letter from someone named Ben about visiting him in Piedmont, South Carolina.
- Elsie emerges from the house holding a cat as the brothers send off a response. They scurry away.