Series from 1993
| Duration: | 5640 min |
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Halle Berry headlines in what USA Today cites as “the first great epic miniseries since Lonesome Dove” as the daughter of a slave and plantation owner…
In pre-Civil War Alabama, the forbidden love between the son (Tim Daly) of a plantation owner (Martin Sheen) and the daughter (Jasmine Guy) of his black valet (Paul Winfield) produces a mulatto child (Raven-Symone); after discovering her mixed parentage, Queen determines to win the ac.
At the war's end, Queen (Halle Berry) oversees the devastated plantation, but leaves when she realizes the family will never accept her; Queen is raped by her wealthy fiance (Victor Garber); while working for two religious spinsters (Sada Thompson, Elizabeth Wilson), Queen meets forme.
Queen (Halle Berry) unknowingly agrees to work for the wife (Frances Conroy) of a Ku Klux Klan leader (Richard Jenkins); Queen heads for Tennessee where she meets good-hearted Alec Haley (Danny Glover) and is hired at a plantation run by a kind abolitionist (George Grizzard); despite.
