Matthew McConaughey as Newton Knight

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Rachel

Mahershala Ali as Moses Washington

Keri Russell as Serena Knight

Jacob Lofland as Daniel

Sean Bridgers as Sumrall

Brad Carter as Lieutenant Barbour

Jane McNeill as Miss Ellie

Gary Grubbs as Prosecuting Attorney

Christopher Berry as Jasper

Joe Chrest as Amos Deason

David Jensen as Quitman

Kurt Krause as Injured Soldier

Carlton Caudle as Confederate Color Guard

Martin Bats Bradford as Freedman 1

Matt Lintz as Matthew Yates

Kerry Cahill as Mary

Jessica Collins as Annie

Juan Gaspard as Confederate Soldier

Liza J. Bennett as Junie Lee

David Maldonado as Polling Station Clerk

Serenity Neil as Schoolgirl

Lawrence Turner as Chester

Lara Grice as Mrs. Deason

Wayne Pére as Col. Robert Lowry

Jim Klock as Farmer 1

Emily Bossak as Town Folk

P.J. Marshall as Sergeant

Ritchie Montgomery as Third Man

Mattie Liptak as Stillman Coleman

Jill Jane Clements as Aunt Sally

Thomas Francis Murphy as Col. McLemore

Johnny McPhail as Old Man

Bill Tangradi as Lt. Barbour

William Mark McCullough as First Man

Sam Malone as Edward James - Cotton Field Worker

Kylen Davis as Boy at Alice Hotel

Will Beinbrink as Farmer 2

Troy Hogan as George

Cy Parks as Confederate Soldier

Dane Rhodes as Ward

Lucy Faust as Second Woman / Yeoman Farmer

Stella Allen as Yeoman Girl

Cade Mansfield Cooksey as Older Coleman Brother

Tahj Vaughans as Maroon (uncredited)

Brian Lee Franklin as Davis Knight