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Roots: The Gift

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Roots: The Gift — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • December 11, 1988
  • Runtime
  • 93 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, History, TV Movie
  • Director
  • Kevin Hooks

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Roots: The Gift — Cast

LeVar Burton photo LeVar Burton Kunta Kinte Louis Gossett Jr. photo Louis Gossett Jr. Fiddler Avery Brooks photo Avery Brooks Cletus Moyer Kate Mulgrew photo Kate Mulgrew Hattie Carraway Shaun Cassidy photo Shaun Cassidy Edmund Parker, Jr. John McMartin photo John McMartin Edmund Parker, Sr. Jerry Hardin photo Jerry Hardin William Reynolds Annabella Price photo Annabella Price Sarah Parker

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