Stepin Fetchit as Gummy

Clarence Muse as Nappus

Eugene Jackson as Chinquapin

Dorothy Morrison as Melia

A.C.H. Billbrew as Hoodoo Woman

Richard Brooks as True Love

Richard Carlyle as White Doctor

Gertrude Howard as Emmy

Clifford Ingram as Rammey

Bernice Pilot as Chloe

Vivian Smith as Violet

Mildred Washington as Trailia

Zack Williams as Deacon

Nappus is an old black man who works on a farm and has a daughter named Chloe who is married to a lazy man named Gummy. Chloe does both the housework and manual labor, while Gummy stays out in the sun. They have two children named Chiquapin and Trailia who become ill. Gummy takes them to a voodoo woman. This doesn’t help, for both the mother and daughter die. Nappus sells his farm and mule to send Chiquapin north to become a doctor, in hopes the boy will help come back to the south and help those in need.