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directed by Kenny Saylors
How Slaves Became Spies To Free A Nation
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Search all platforms ↗Based on the true story of John Scobell, one of the first African American spies in our nation’s intelligence service. In 1861, President Lincoln commissions his spymaster Allan Pinkerton to incorporate a new network of African American spies. This group, operating right under the noses of their Southern masters, comes to be known as The Royal Lincoln League.

Sandra Ellis Lafferty
Missus Hicks

T.C. Stallings
John Scobell
Allen C. Shepherd Sr.
Cleon Fisk

Jesse Hutch
Capt. James Atwater

Desiree Ross
Mary Bowser
Director
Kenny Saylors
Language
EN