Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film, it is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of an African American author, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte, a character in the novel Roots by which African American author?
Roots: The Gift Roots: The Gift is a 1988 television film. It is the third installment of the "Roots" series, which traces the maternal family history of African American author Alex Haley, starting with his fourth great-grandfather Kunta Kinte. The film premiered on ABC on 11 December 1988, with AT&T as the sole national sponsor for the broadcast. LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr. reprise their respective roles of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler. The film takes place between the second and third episodes of the original "Roots" miniseries.
The Kent Family Chronicles The Kent Family Chronicles (also known as The American Bicentennial Series) is a series of eight novels by John Jakes written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The books became best sellers, with no novel in the series selling fewer than 3.5 million copies. With "The Rebels," "The Seekers," and "The Furies," Jakes became the first author to have three books on the "New York Times" bestseller list in a single year (1975).