The Birth of a Nation Scene 21 Summary

  • It's election day. The caption tells us that all black people were allowed to vote but some white people weren't. (Massive historical inaccuracy alert.)
  • The politicians supported by Northerners and Southern black people end up winning. Lynch becomes the lieutenant governor.
  • Ben is upset. He describes how black judges and juries are winning court cases against white folks. And all these poor white people ever did was own people as slaves.
  • The Camerons' black servant is taken out of house and attacked by a group of black soldiers for not voting on their side. They accidentally kill another man while doing so.
  • The servant tells Ben what happened.