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.
Acting
Louis Gossett Jr. weaponizing quiet dignity and explosive grief.
Production
1996 TV budget somehow making antebellum Virginia claustrophobic.
Director
Bruce Pittman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James Mink was a real Toronto hotelier—his livery stable stood where City Hall now sits.
The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act made Canada less safe than advertised; the film downplays how many free Black Canadians were kidnapped back.
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