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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.

Date: 12/11/1988

Rating: 6.8

Cast: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Shaun Cassidy, John McMartin, Jerry Hardin, Annabella Price, Michael Learned, Fran Bennett, Tim Russ, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Brandy Brown, Ernest Harden Jr., Maria Bryant, James McIntire, Lawrence Mandley, John Sherrod, Karl Anthony Smith, J. Christopher Sullivan, Donna Howell, Billy Ray Reynolds, Michael Edwards, Myke R. Mueller, John Murray, Alex Haley, Bernard Peyton, Tina Andrews, Robert Goldman, Debra Perry

LeVar Burton