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Roots

Kunta Kinte is captured in Africa and brought to the United States as a slave. His descendants survive slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction to thrive as free Americans.

Roots : the gift

Christmas Eve, 1775. For the celebrants at Parker Plantation, it's a time of joy and giving. For enslaved friends Fiddler and Kunta Kinte, it's a chance to give to other slaves the most precious gift of all: freedom.

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