George Johnson (Brad Davis) saves Tom's life after he is nearly beaten to death; Tom moves his family to Tennessee for a new start.

Chicken George (Ben Vereen) wins his freedom; George's son Tom (Georg Stanford Brown) works as a blacksmith for the Confederacy.

Kizzy (Leslie Uggams) is raped by her new master (Chuck Connors); Kizzy gives birth to a son (Ben Vereen) who grows up to be the master's gamecock trainer.

Kunta (John Amos) is severely punished for escaping; he eventually marries the slave woman (Madge Sinclair) who nurses him back to health.

Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) arrives in America and is sold; he learns the ways of his new life from a slave named Fiddler (Louis Gossett Jr.).

Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is captured by slave traders and shipped to America aboard a vessel commanded by a conscience-stricken captain (Ed Asner).