Roots: The Gift (1988)

Roots: The Gift
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On Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.

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Cast

John Murray
as Bishop Wadley
Kate Mulgrew
as Hattie Carraway
Avery Brooks
as Cletus Moyer
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Fiddler
LeVar Burton
as Kunta Kinte
Lawrence Mandley
as Boatman
Fran Bennett
as May
Tim Russ
as Marcellus
Michael Learned
as Amelia Parker
Jimmie F. Skaggs
as Scarvie
Jerry Hardin
as William Reynolds
John McMartin
as Edmund Parker, Sr.
Shaun Cassidy
as Edmund Parker, Jr.
Annabella Price
as Sarah Parker
Alex Haley
as Self - presenter
Tina Andrews
as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ernest Harden Jr.
as Nick
Robert Goldman
as Horseman (uncredited)
Debra Perry
as Slave Girl (uncredited)

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