Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), June 6th, 1997
Perhaps only a man of myth would give up his freedom and live in bondage so others might gain some modicum of liberty.
Perhaps even more extraordinary is the idea that his gift brought the threat of death, but that many would step out on faith and into the mouth of risk just to behold it.
This is the tale of "Nightjohn," a film by director Charles Burnett ("To Sleep With Anger") about a fictional 1850s slave who knew that, for blacks, mastery of the written word was a power that would break chains and unshackle minds. And a power that would get them killed in the antebellum South.
But as ...
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