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.

• DirectorSusanna Styron
• Release23 September 1998
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 28m
• Budget?
• Revenue$20,167
• Rate
  

  5.722
  18 reviews
• Productions

  Nu Image, Tidewater Pictures Inc., Millennium Media