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Shadrach

(1998)

September 23, 1998 1h 28m
57%
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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.

Susanna Styron

Director