Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Lost Media Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)

Oscar Micheaux circa. 1913


Uncle Jasper's Will is a 1922 race film directed, written, and produced by Oscar Micheaux. The film is intended as a sequel to another Oscar Micheaux Within Our Gates (1920). Both films feature racial violence against African Americans.

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The film is about the last will and testament left behind by an African American sharecropper. He had been lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner. 

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