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.
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Harvey Keitel
Vernon
Andie MacDowell
Trixie
Martin Sheen
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John Franklin Sawyer
Shadrach
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