Tap Roots

The name of this movie is Tap Roots released in 1948-08-25 and it's main theme is Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist Ward Bond and a Native American gentleman Boris Karloff. The abolitionist's daughter Susan Hayward is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher Van Heflin when her fiance Whitfield Connor, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister Julie London. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South..