Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Kevin Hooks Director
- 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.
- Brandy Brown as Arabella
- Maria Bryant as Lilly
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