During one of the secret meetings, a representative of the free blacks from the hills gives a report about births in the community.  He then gives a weapons count and finally tells of their plan to help the others escape.

[We've] come to talk with you; get you together.
To take you away in the hills one by one.

We know what else is going [on] down here.
Cause we serve our own God - in the hills.
You se - You people down here serve the white man God.

[clapping]
This thing is not to be known cause we are one people.
We'll take you one by one.
'Til we all get together in the hills where you are free.

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