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.

Vernon

Trixie

Narrator (voice)

Paul

Father

Mother

Middle Mole

Lucinda

Captain
September 23, 1998



Vernon

Trixie

Narrator (voice)

Paul

Father

Mother

Middle Mole

Lucinda

Captain