Freedom Road

Freedom Road
  • Release date: 29 Oct 1979
  • Release year: 1979
  • Runtime: 186 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: shirt ripped off, bare chested male bondage, whipping, good versus evil, president, former slave, virginia, 1870s, bare chested male, mercilessness
Plot:
Gideon Jackson (Muhammad Ali), once a black slave, returns home after the civil War as a free man. The Union Army has won the war against the Southern Confederation, but in reality, the country still remains bitterly divided. Gideon Jackson soon becomes a U.S. senator from South Carolina, the very state which was previously a flag barrier of "white supremacy" and "slavery". How will the illiterate and blue-collar former slave utilize his newfound freedom? Racism is not ended with the war, Can he ever hope to achieve real equality with his former white master?
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