Roots: The Gift

December. 11,1988      PG
Rating:
6.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

LeVar Burton as  Kunta Kinte
Louis Gossett Jr. as  Fiddler
Jerry Hardin as  Reynolds
Kate Mulgrew as  Hattie Carraway
Shaun Cassidy as  Edmund Parker, Jr.
Avery Brooks as  Cletus Moyer
Michael Learned as  Amelia
John McMartin as  Edmund Parker, Sr.
Ernest Harden Jr. as  Nick
Annabella Price as  Sarah

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