A courthouse shooting leads a young reporter to uncover the long story of race and power in his small town and the relationship between the white sheriff and th

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This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he