_{A black congregation prays for the wily a nd  ambitious Brutus  jones (Paul Robeson), who is off to work on the railway. Jones is  conscripted to a chin gang after killing a fellow gambler,and escapes by clubbing a guard. On the run, he get a job shoveling coal on a ship in the caribbean, and jumps off when they pass an island. When he is captured by the natives, his freedom is bought by a white trader ( Dudley Digges). jhones tricks the tribe and becomes emperor, but is outrun by his own magic.}