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* [[Arc Words]]: "(Name), behold! The only thing greater than yourself!"; in the later episodes, the story each generation of Kunta Kinte's family tells about their family tree.▼
* [[All There in the Manual]]: There is a somewhat obscure special called: ''Roots: The Gift'' that takes place between Parts 2 and 3 of the series that explains how Kunta and Fiddler moved to Reynolds's plantation.
▲* [[Arc Words]]: "(Name), behold! The only thing greater than yourself!"; in the later episodes, the story each generation of Kunta Kinte's family tells about their family tree.
* [[Big No]]/[[Say My Name]]: KUNTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]: Pettijohn refusing to stick his neck out again for Simon Haley and help save Ab Dekker.
* [[Family Drama]]: Extended multigenerational.
* [[Generational Saga]]
* [[I Die Free]]
* [[Inspired By]]: The earlier parts, before Chicken George are all fiction. There ''was'' a Kunta Kinte and a ''Lord Ligonier,'' but neither have a proven connection to Haley. The rest may have been altered here or there for the sake of drama.
* [[Made a Slave]]: Kunta Kinte.
* [[Miniseries]]▼
* [[The Man Is Keeping Us Down]]: And how! There are a couple of sympathetic whites, though, particularly George Johnson and his wife.
▲* [[Miniseries]]
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: The [[Tear Jerker]] variety - it's Kunta Kinte, ''not'' Toby.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Some of the masters have a couple of moments that could count -- even Tom Moore, who would have been a [[Complete Monster]] otherwise.
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