A young female Sheriff’s Deputy in rural Louisiana takes on her town’s old money establishment when the woman she loves – an attorney fighting to stop a rail deal that threatens to displace the town’s poor – is murdered.

When filmmaker and investigative journalist Frances Causey, a daughter of the South, set out to explore the continuing racial divisions in the US, what she discovered was that the politics of slavery didn’t end with the Civil War. In an astonishingly candid look at the United States’ original sin, The Long Shadow traces slavery’s history from America’s founding up through its insidious ties to racism today.