A House Divided 2000

In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.

Cast:

Sam Waterston
David Dickson 

Jennifer Beals
Amanda Dickson 

LisaGay Hamilton
Julia 

Tim Daly
Charles Dubose 

Shirley Douglas
Elizabeth Dickson 

Sean McCann
Rutherford