NIGHTJOHN (1997 program note)
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NIGHTJOHN (1997 program note)
A program note for the 1997 San Francisco International Film Festival. — J.R. In this intense drama of courage and humanity in the face of the brutality of slavery, a plantation slave named Nightjohn (Carl Lumblv) defies the law by teaching another slave, a l2-year-old girl named Sammy (Allison Jones), how to read and write. The only other slave on the plantation who even knows the alphabet had a thumb and forefinger chopped off as punishment. W…
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