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Shadrach (1998)

Shadrach (1998)

Drama
Release Date: 1998, September 23
Directors: Susanna Styron
Countries: United States of America
Production: Nu Image, Tidewater Pictures Inc., Tidewater Pictures Inc., Millennium Media, Millennium Media, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures
Cast: Deborah Hedwall, Harvey Keitel, Andie MacDowell, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Edward Bunker, Ginnie Randall, Scott Terra, Michael Ruff, Muse Watson, Darrell Larson, Erin Underwood

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

woman director slavery virginia slave racial segregation