Treemonisha

It is the late 1880s in the Deep South. A people are divided against themselves. A group of upwardly mobile Freedmen are now running a plantation near Texarkana. They are striving to become an essential part of an emerging new America. In the surrounding forest, a group of Maroons are rebuilding a nearly lost connection to their African ancestry. They do not value a country that has so recently seen them as nothing but property. Their coexistenc...