Read 'Em John/Rule, Britannia! (TURN Ep.105 "Epiphany")

TURN's musical juxtaposition of "Read 'Em John" (a slavery-era ring shout about a slave who can read) with the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" (whose chorus includes the line "Britons never will be slaves!") was brilliantly depicted in a scene where a literate slave reads the notice declaring that he and several other slaves owned by a British colonist have been set free.
I have spliced together the audio from the scene to remove most of the dialogue.
Image: Abigail from TURN: Washington's Spies

[@rockymountaintmp4436]

I’m about to dig a ditch in my backyard I’m gonna have this playing

[@Axelgear2006]

Small correction: It was an *American* colonist, not a British one. It was a British officer who did the emancipating, as a part of the ongoing British campaign to break the colonial economy (which was essentially built on the backs of slaves) and bolster the size of the British forces. There were also significant abolitionist sentiments in the officer corps of the British Army at the time, and in Britain generally, which had abolished slavery on the island itself two years before the revolution (though not so much sentiment as to abolish it in its overseas holdings, which paid mightily in tariffs).
History. It's complicated!

[@AustonMatthewsFitnessOfficial]

Britannia rule the waves!

[@cateatfood6634]

Latino De Peru y Brazil You lobster!

[@cheezebits2797]

@@cateatfood6634 triggered SJW

[@cheezebits2797]

@@dakota5205 idiot

[@patttrick]

No . The French.

[@captainmcchicken7362]

Nice

[@MarkL-we8uk]

Great mix.

[@Defunct231324141]

👍👍

[@patttrick]

The English language beat that . It gives people ideas

[@angieroxy7550]

Nice Song! But What is the name of the Song that the Coloured People are Singing?

[@parthmhatre1633]

Read them john

[@SStupendous]

Literally shows you in the Title.... "Read 'em John/Rule Britannia"

[@williamwhitehouse8214]

RULE BRITANNIA!

[@SStupendous]

@@williamwhitehouse8214 They said "COLORED PEOPLE"..

[@williamwhitehouse8214]

​@@SStupendous Just some shit patriot song that ended up being untrue. True freedom came if you sided with the British and were lucky enough to move to Canada.