Summaries

A wealthy Black woman in Canada gets kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South.

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the border, his true character emerges, he sells her into slavery. James and Elizabeth must go to Virginia to rescue their daughter.—Bruce Cameron <[email protected]>

James Mink is a black man living in the 19th century in Canada, a man of affluence. He is married to a white woman and they have a daughter who is black. An American asks for his daughter's hand in marriage and he gives it. But after they leave they discover that he sold her into slavery and there's nothing they can do. A woman who works for him who was a slave who escaped tells him of the underground railroad. So she tells him where he can contact them and he goes but upon arriving is subjected to the indignities that all blacks went through at the time.[email protected]

Details

Keywords
  • slave
  • canada
  • christian film
  • christian
  • plantation
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Apr 13, 1996
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Unrated
Countries of origin United States Canada
Language English
Filming locations Gooderham and Worts Distillery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Production companies CanWest Global Communications Hallmark Entertainment Dorothea G. Petrie Productions

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 31m
Color Color
Sound mix Stereo
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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