Sterling K. Brown's Washington Black Hulu limited series casts the title role

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In the 19th century-set series, Ernest Kingsley Jr. will play George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Wash is the protégé of Brown's character. Also joining the cast is Iola Evans as a young British woman of means “passing” as white but secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands.