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.
Cast
- LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte
- Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler
- Avery Brooks as Cletus Moyer
- Kate Mulgrew as Hattie Carraway
- Shaun Cassidy as Edmund Parker, Jr.
- John McMartin as Edmund Parker, Sr.
- Jerry Hardin as William Reynolds
- Annabella Price as Sarah Parker
- Michael Learned as Amelia Parker
- Fran Bennett as May