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| Paul Robeson | Brutus Jones |
| Dudley Digges | Smithers |
| Frank Wilson | Jeff |
| Fredi Washington | Undine |
| Ruby Elzy | Dolly |
| George Haymid Stamper | Lem |
| Blueboy O'Connor | Treasurer (uncredited) |
| Brandon Evans | Carrington (uncredited) |
| Taylor Gordon | Stick-man (uncredited) |
A black congregation prays for the wily and ambitious Brutus Jones, who is off to work on the railway. Jones is conscripted to a chain gang after killing a fellow gambler, and escapes by clubbing a guard. On the run, he gets a job shoveling coal on a ship in the Caribbean, and jumps off when they pass an island. When he is captured by the natives, his freedom is bought by a white trader . Jones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is outrun by his own magic.
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