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A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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MacKay
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Cassy
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Luke
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Mrs. Bennett
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New Orleans lady
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Mr. Stillwell
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Mrs. Stillwell
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Shadrach
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Holland
Eva Jessye ...
Julie
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Jericho
Barbara Ann Teer ...
Esther
James Heath ...
Luther
Aldine King ...
Emmeline
Slim Landrum
Gwendolyn Belle
Buddy Flowers
James Burford
Oscar Paul Jones ...
Zacharious
Bennie Baines
Kelly Ross
Easter Neely
The People of Shreveport Louisiana ...
(as the People of Shreveport Louisiana)

Directed by

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Herbert J. Biberman

Written by

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Herbert J. Biberman ... (writer)
 
John O. Killens ... (writer)
 
Alida Sherman ... (writer)

Produced by

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Philip Langner ... producer
Marshall Young ... associate producer

Music by

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Bobby Scott

Cinematography by

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Joseph C. Brun ... (as Joseph Brun)

Editing by

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Sidney Meyers

Editorial Department

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Sylvia Sarner ... assistant editor
Eugene Shapiro ... assistant editor

Casting By

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Ruth Kramer

Art Direction by

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Nathaniel Burr Smidt ... (as Burr Smidt)

Costume Design by

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Laurence Gross ... (costume supplier: Miss Warwick)
Bob Rogers ... Miss Warwick's costume designer

Makeup Department

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Walter Fountain ... Miss Warwick's wigs (as Walter Fontaine)
Philip Leto ... hairdresser
Robert Philippe ... make-up

Production Management

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Preston Collins ... in charge of production
Sidney J. Kaufman ... production executive

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Dan Eriksen ... second unit director
Janet Mokarzel ... assistant director
Bob Rogers ... second assistant director

Art Department

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Karl Brainard ... property master
William Lucneck ... set painter

Sound Department

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Al Gramaglia ... re-recording mixer (as Albert Gramaglia)
Hal Holck ... sound operator
Bud Nolan ... sound effects
Robert Ryan ... sound operator

Camera and Electrical Department

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Guy Galloway ... key grip
R.L. Speed Johnson ... grip
Spec Jones ... camera operator
Clifford H. Poland Jr. ... additional photography (as Clifford Poland)
Norman Popiel ... lighting technician
Harry Walsh Jr. ... cameraman
Mike Freeman ... still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Robert Magahay ... costumes

Music Department

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Gary McFarland ... conductor / music arranger
Bobby Scott ... music arranger and conductor

Script and Continuity Department

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Jill Murphy ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Rudy Franchi ... unit publicist
Marvin Hodges ... technical advisor
Julie Morgan ... assistant to producer
Jack Myers ... technical advisor
Marie Runyon ... production associate
Iris Sawyer ... production associate
Ferdinand Zogbaum ... production associate
Mimi Zogbaum ... wrangler

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Storyline

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Taglines The tamings...The desires...The furies...of the Old South! See more »
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Also Known As
  • La maîtresse noire (France)
  • Esclaves (France)
  • Sklaven (West Germany)
  • Rabszolgák (Hungary)
  • I nyhta ton sklavon (Greece)
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  • 110 min
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Trivia This was the final film directed by Herbert J. Biberman before his death on June 30, 1971 at the age of 71. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Afro Promo (1997). See more »
Soundtracks Slaves See more »
Quotes MacKay: [in a room filled with African artifacts, he is addressing owners and attendant servants] We'd better all understand this darkie we own, gentlemen. He's the only self-reproducing machine in the world. Gotta know how to run it. I first met him in Africa, as a young man, when I ran a ship in the illegal slave-running trade, before I settled down here in the very legal, slave-driving, cotton trade.
MacKay: [to the servants] Boys, attend to the gentlemen.
MacKay: [he continues] I packed blacks into my ship until you couldn't walk the decks. Every morning we threw the dead and the rebellious overboard. They were not easy those voyages. But we could turn a profit if we got 40% of them here alive.
MacKay: [he continues] My library is always at your disposal. Volumes on all the aspects of human slavery. But I can spell it for you in this one, magnificent sculpture or in one story which tells all one needs to know about the human being, in slavery or out. In the African trade, I met an old chief. I bought many of his people from him. Discussing handling slaves, he said "Captain, in the soul of a free man, a little slavery and a lot weigh the same. So they do in the soul of a slave. So when you chain him, just as well chain him firm." Brilliant man! He was as black as coal. He'd find your views, Mr. Bennett, romantic; dangerous.
MacKay: [he continues] I know you all wonder why I keep these things in my house. They make you uncomfortable. Me too. That's why I keep them here. Ivory, stone, wood, bronze.
MacKay: [to Luke] Don't gawk, boy. Get that tray filled. Boy! Did you hear me?
Luke: Yes, Master.
MacKay: Don't talk back to me. Replenish the tray.
MacKay: [he continues] I just ordered a darkie out of this room. Do you know anything about him? From his facial characteristics, his people probably came from the Songhai tribe, the area around Timbuktu. Three hundred years ago, they had a university there where the most delicate operations were performed for cataracts of the eye. People came from all over the world to have their sight restored by these extraordinary, black surgeons. I believe origins can crop up even after ten generations - unless they get weeded out. What do we create? Surgeons? Sculptors? Or niggers?
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