![]() They were children of mixed parentage, and nobody had really ever spoken on their behalf. "There were thousands upon thousands of children of the plantation, as they were called. ![]() Haley "saw Queen as representative of a vast body of dispossessed people," said David Stevens, who wrote the teleplay. (Tim Daly) and a slave (Jasmine Guy), Queen finds herself accepted in neither the black nor the white worlds. Born the daughter of white plantation owner James Jackson Jr. It's the tale of Haley's paternal grandmother, Queen Haley - her dramatic and extraordinarily painful life. Haley, who died last year, didn't live to see it, but that story became "Queen," an outstanding six-hour miniseries that airs Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday on CBS (8 p.m. "And two hours later Alex is still talking and telling us the story." "He said, `I'm thinking about doing a book about my father's side of the family. ALMOST FOUR years ago, Alex Haley sat down to lunch with David Wolper, who produced the miniseries "Roots" and "Roots: The Next Generations." ![]()
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