At about 39 minutes, the girl comes down the stairs to the 'basement' where Freeman's father was held with a double- barrel, side by side shotgun. As she aims the double-barrel, side by side shotgun at Freeman and Uncle George, You can hear the sound of a pump-action shotgun. The double-barrel, side by side shotgun is not a pump-action gun.
George relates a story that Tic's maternal ancestor Hanna escaped her master's house after a fire and speculates that it must have been Titus Braithwhite who was her master. However, William said that the Braithwhite lodge burned down in 1833 and slavery was ended in Massachusetts with the 1781 Quock Walker decision where the Supreme Judicial Court found slavery incompatible with the new Massachusetts Constitution. There had been no slaves in Massachusetts for more than forty yeas before the Braithwhite lodge burned down.