Shadrach

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.

Top Cast

Harvey Keitel

Vernon

Andie MacDowell

Trixie

Martin Sheen

Narrator (voice)

John Franklin Sawyer

Shadrach

Scott Terra

Paul