Carl Lumbly

Nat Turner - Gray

Justin Dray

Thomas Gray

Megan Gallagher

Margaret Whitehead

Charles Burnett

Lucinda

Ossie Davis

Himself

Frank Faucette

Jesse

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self

Harry Kollatz Jr.

Benjamin Phipps

Alfre Woodard

Narrator

Herbert Aptheker

Self

William Styron

Self

Raymond H. Johnson

Virginia Militiaman reenactment

Alvin F. Poussaint

Self

Shaun DePriest

Moses

Kimberly Grey

Sally Travers

Martha Minnow

Self

Eric Foner

Self