Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001 TV Movie)

Phylicia Rashad: Cassandra Hawkins

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  Cassandra Hawkins : Samuel Pinckney was accused of killing a white plantation owner. Some of what you've been taught about the American South before the Civil War is true, some is not. Sam was condemned without a trial and killed for crimes that my research suggests he did not commit. He had lived peaceably on a plantation in Culpeper, Virginia, owned by one Sarah McCullough. Unfortunately, we may never know the whole story regarding Samuel Pinckney, and this is both a sad fact of history, and for me, a personal tragedy because... Samuel Pinckney was my distant grandfather.