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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Gerald Brown, Bruce Evers, Carl Lumbly, John Herina, Deborah Duke, Allison Jones, Gabriel Casseus, Bill Gribble, Bill Cobbs, Bird York, Danny Nelson, Lorraine Toussaint ...MORE

Cast: Gerald Brown, Bruce Evers, Carl Lumbly, John Herina, Deborah Duke, Allison Jones, Gabriel Casseus, Bill Gribble, Bill Cobbs, Bird York, Danny Nelson, Lorraine Toussaint, Tom Nowicki, Shannon Eubanks, Beau Bridges ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Period piece

Nightjohn is a story about a young slave girl who lives a hopeless life on a Southern plantation. Her job is to take care of the white family’s son as well as spitting tobacco on the roses to keeps bugs away. However, her life is changed when she is taught how to read by a fellow slave. The slave, John, says that learning to read is freedom because slavery is bounded by laws and deeds which the slaves cannot read. Her excitement towards reading gets her and her fellow slaves in trouble with their master, Mr. Waller, who prohibits any slave from being able to read. When trouble ensues,... MORE

Nightjohn is a story about a young slave girl who lives a hopeless life on a Southern plantation. Her job is to take care of the white family’s son as well as spitting tobacco on the roses to keeps bugs away. However, her life is changed when she is taught how to read by a fellow slave. The slave, John, says that learning to read is freedom because slavery is bounded by laws and deeds which the slaves cannot read. Her excitement towards reading gets her and her fellow slaves in trouble with their master, Mr. Waller, who prohibits any slave from being able to read. When trouble ensues, Sarny uses her ability to read against Mr. Waller and saves the lives of the rest of the slaves. She ends up being sold, but not before she shows her fellow slaves the letter ‘A’. The movie begins with Sarny being born in the slave house. Their master, Clel Waller, then walks in and becomes angry when he realizes that it is a girl, instead of a boy. He states that a boy is worth a thousand dollars while a girl is worth nothing. Later when Sarny becomes a child, her mother is sold and is then taken care of by another slave, Dealey. Sarny is then seen as being even older and starts working on the LESS