Roots: Part 2

A&E

After landing in America, Kunta is sold to an ill-tempered tobacco plantation owner named John Waller. Waller assigns Fiddler, the talented violinist and favored slave, to break Kunta of his pride and accept his slave identity.

Roots: Part 7

A&E

Chicken George returns to America as a free man after twenty years of cockfighting in England. He finds Tom Lea who has sold his family to the Murray farm in North Carolina.

Roots: Part 8

A&E

After witnessing Secessionist troops rape his wife, Tom agrees to help Nancy with a plot to kill an officer and abscond with military intelligence.

Roots: Part 3

A&E

After a few years on Waller’s farm, Kunta Kinte’s spirit and thirst for freedom remain unbroken. When the Revolutionary War breaks out, he joins the British in pursuit of emancipation.

Roots: Part 4

A&E

Kizzy is an extremely bright and curious child. She learns to read from her master’s niece, Missy, but must hide her knowledge since it is illegal for slaves to be literate.

Roots: Part 6

A&E

Tom Lea promises that he will give George the opportunity to buy his freedom someday. Meanwhile, Kizzy’s love interest, Marcellus, offers to purchase her from Tom but he refuses to let her go.

Roots: Part 5

A&E

Chicken George, the 10-year-old rascal son of Kizzy and grandson of Kunta Kinte, is drawn to the beauty of game hens. His father and master, Tom Lea, assigns him to work with fellow slave Mingo take care of the fighting birds against his mother’s wishes.