Carl Lumbly
Nat Turner - Gray
Justin Dray
Thomas Gray
Megan Gallagher
Margaret Whitehead
Charles Burnett
Lucinda
Ossie Davis
Himself
F
Frank Faucette
Jesse
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
H
Harry Kollatz Jr.
Benjamin Phipps
Alfre Woodard
Narrator
H
Herbert Aptheker
Self
William Styron
Self
R
Raymond H. Johnson
Virginia Militiaman reenactment
A
Alvin F. Poussaint
Self
S
Shaun DePriest
Moses
K
Kimberly Grey
Sally Travers
M
Martha Minnow
Self
E
Eric Foner
Self