Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.

• DirectorJán Kadár
• Release29 October 1979
• GenreDrama
• Duration3h 6m
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  4.8
  6 reviews
• Productions

  Braun Entertainment Group, Worldvision