A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

• The Fremantle Corporation
• Past America
• Avery Brooks
• Rhetta Greene
• Mason Adams
• Emory Beasley
• Kent Broadhurst
• Lee Bryant
• Charles Darden
• Tony Dreyspool