This, along with the fact that Chicken George’s father was a white man really seems to make Tom’s actions in regard to Elizabeth hypocritical. One of my favorite characters “Ol’ George Johnson” from the last mini-series is mentioned as having gone west.
However, Ben Vereen did not return to that of his father, Chicken George. Georg Stanford Brown is back in the role of Tom Harvey. Elizabeth never marries, and she is the old-maid Aunt whom Alex Haley remembered hearing stories from on the porch in his youth. Tom doesn’t approve of the relationship because the suitor is light-skinned and forces them apart. Meanwhile, one of Tom’s daughters, Elizabeth, has turned eighteen and has a suitor. As supportive as Fred Warner is of the local blacks being educated, he will not accept one in his family. Jim Warner eventually convinces her to marry him.
He has two sons, one of whom ends up falling for Carrie Barden, the black teacher hired to teach the local black schoolchildren. Patriarch Colonel Fred Warner was in the Confederate Army. He has moments of clarity and moments where his memory is faulty.Īs with Roots, there are side stories of how the issue of race also affected those in the white community who weren’t bigoted.
His Daddy, Chicken George, comes to live with them. Tom Harvey has made a home for his family in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
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