Shadrach

1h 28min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

Nu Image

Tidewater Pictures Inc.

Millennium Media

Release date

23rd Sep 1998

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English