Emancipation is an 2022 American historical action thriller film set in Louisianna in the 1860s after President Abraham Lincoln declared an end to slavery in the US. The film was directed by Antoine Fuqua and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge. He must survive the swamps while being chased by slave catchers and their dogs. Written by William M. Collage, the biographical film is loosely based on the lives of Peter and/or Gordon, one of two formerly enslaved Black men whose photographs, including one of a bare back heavily scourged from an overseer's whippings, were published magazine illustrations worldwide in 1863, and gave thew abolitionist movement proof of the cruelty of slavery. The film also stars Ben Foster as a ruthless slave hunter and Charmaine Bingwa as an enslaved wife and mother. The film employs an artistic desaturated color palette reminiscent of black-and-white film.
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Cast[]
- Will Smith as Peter
- Ben Foster as Fassel
- Charmaine Bingwa as Dodienne
- Steven Ogg as Sergeant Howard
- Mustafa Shakir as Andre Cailloux
- Timothy Hutton as Senator John lyons
- Gilbert Owuór as Gordon
- Grant Harvey as Leeds
- Ronnie Green Blevins as Harrington
- Jabbar Lewis as Tomas
- Michael Luwoye as John
- Aaron Moten as Knowls
- Imani Pullum as Betsy
- David Denmen as General William Dwight