Roots

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A ship full of white slave traders come and hunt down all of the natives to be sold into slavery, and forced to wear the name Toby. During the course of their forced journey, a group of slaves rebel, but fail to take over the ship. After weeks of travel, the ship lands in America, where the captured people are sold as slaves...

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Status: Canceled/Ended
Premiered: Jan/23/1977
Network: ABC

Type: Scripted
Genre:

/ drama
/ historical

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Telegrapher	Ames	Bud
Field singer	Gardner	[more cast]

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Random Fun Fact: The show was programmed by ABC to air on several consecutive nights in prime time. It was considered a revolutionary approach to programming a mini-series, since most minis were aired once or twice a week over several weeks' time. It was revealed years later that the reason the network did this was so ... - [more trivia]

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