LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte

Louis Gossett Jr. as Fiddler

Avery Brooks as Cletus Moyer

Kate Mulgrew as Hattie Carraway

Shaun Cassidy as Edmund Parker, Jr.

John McMartin as Edmund Parker, Sr.

Jerry Hardin as William Reynolds

Annabella Price as Sarah Parker

Michael Learned as Amelia Parker

Fran Bennett as May

Tim Russ as Marcellus

Jimmie F. Skaggs as Scarvie

Brandy Brown as Arabella

Ernest Harden Jr. as Nick

Maria Bryant as Lilly

James McIntire as Jubal

Lawrence Mandley as Boatman

John Sherrod as Driver #1

Karl Anthony Smith as Gaunt Man

J. Christopher Sullivan as Driver #2

Donna Howell as Elly

Billy Ray Reynolds as Christopher

Michael Edwards as Gentleman #1

Myke R. Mueller as Gentleman #2

John Murray as Bishop Wadley

Alex Haley as Self - presenter

Bernard Peyton as Jolly

Tina Andrews as Aurelia (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert Goldman as Horseman (uncredited)

Debra Perry as Slave Girl (uncredited)