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.
Vernon
Trixie
Narrator (voice)
Shadrach
Paul
Virginia
Father
Mother
Little Mole
Middle Mole
Lucinda
Captain
Cloris
Edmonia
Smut
Dock Worker
Joe Thorton
Seddon Washington
Preacher
