In 1935, ninety-nine-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.
Shadrach 1998
Stars
Martin Sheen
John Franklin Sawyer
Scott Terra
Ginnie Randall
Darrell Larson
Deborah Hedwall
Jonathan Parks Jordan
Erin Underwood
Susanna Styron
