
Drama
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

Harvey Keitel
Vernon

Andie MacDowell
Trixie

Martin Sheen
Narrator (voice)
John Franklin Sawyer
Shadrach

Scott Terra
Paul
Ginnie Randall
Virginia

Darrell Larson
Father

Deborah Hedwall
Mother
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