Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law enforcement and the KKK. He unites with sharecropper Abner Lait, who helps Jackson unite ex-slaves and white tenant farmers.
as Gideon Jackson
as Abner Lait
as Francis Cardoza
as Stephen Holmes
as President Ulysses S. Grant
as Narrator
as Rachel Jackson (as Barbara-O Jones)
as Brother Peter
as James Allenby
as Ellen Allenby
as Ruth Lait
as Trooper
as Hannibal
as Katie
as Sheriff Bentley
as Jason Hugar
as Marion Jefferson
as Louise Jefferson
as Will Boone
as Frank Carlson
as Older Jeff Jackson
as Young Jeff Jackson
as Older Marcus Jackson
as Young Marcus Jackson
as Lawyer Greene
as Isaac Went
as Mrs. Carter
as 1st White Trash Delegate
as 2nd White Trash Delegate
as Major at Convention
as Mrs. Ganfret
as Major Walsh
as Uncle Baddy
as 3rd White Trash Delegate
as Jimmy Lait
as Black Delegate
as Yankee Boss
as Gen. Ganfret
as Dudley Carwell
as Convention Speaker
as Soldier
as Auctioneer
as Young Black Man with Scars
as Mrs. Dupre
as Wounded Redshirt
as Well-Dressed Black Delegate
as Clair Willis
as Roger Dupre
