sci fi movie about going back intime to slaves

Lumbley's real-life wife, Vonetta McGee, sparkles as the house slave and psychic Motilla, who turns out to be T.J.'s spiritual guide through his surreal and harrowing experience. Carl Lumbly ('How Stella Got Her Groove Back,' 'Men of Honor') was properly dignified as the unforgettable Vesey. Gifted comic actor Phill Lewis ('City Slickers') is both funny and touching as T.J. also meets real-life hero Denmark Vesey, a freed former slave who leads a slave revolt, and is hanged with his co-conspirators, becoming a martyr to the cause of freedom. In his humbling experience/history lesson, T.J. Although it is never stated, I got the distinct impression these young runaways were T.J.'s direct ancestors. He helps the young slave learn to read and write and then helps the young man and his wife-to-be escape the Cooper Plantation. unintentionally gets a young slave he has befriended beaten brutally for one of his own backfired stunts.

is at first arrogant and blissfully ignorant of the struggle for freedom that African-Americans valiantly faced and overcame, and the legacy the brave souls who put their lives on the line (and who sometimes lost those lives) left to those who still fight the ongoing battle for civil rights and equal opportunity. He is captured and sold at a slave auction to a plantation owner 'Master Cooper.' T.J. finds himself transported from present-day Detroit to 1822 Charleston, South Carolina.

Sci fi movie about going back intime to slaves