Cicely Tyson

Harriet Ross Tubman

Will Geer

Thomas Garrett

Robert Hooks

William Still

Orson Welles

Narrator (voice)

Jason Bernard

Daddy Ben Ross

John Getz

Stewart

James B. Sikking

McCracken

Clifford David

Doc Thompson

Mae Mercer

Aunt Juba

Charles Weldon

Shadrack Davis