Below is a YouTube video interview with the Honorable Bro. **** Gregory on Django Unchained in response to Bro. Spike Lee remarks on the video:
Many
people do not know that the character Django is based on a
non-fictional character name: Dangerfield Newby. He was part of the John
Brown Black Raiders. He joined the group because he was free and wanted
his wife who was a **** to be free. Below is a letter from his wife found on Newby after his death: Dear
Husband: I want you to buy me as soon as possible, for if you do not
get me somebody else will. The servants are very disagreeable; they do
all they can to set my mistress against me. Dear Husband,. . . the last
two years have been like a troubled dream to me. It is said Master is in
want of money. If so, I know not what time he may sell me, and then all
my bright hopes of the future are blasted, for there has been one
bright hope to cheer me in all my troubles, that is to be with you, for
if I thought I should never see you, this earth would have no charms fo
me. Do all you can for me, which I have no doubt you will. I want to see
you so much.
