Lynda Day George

A chainsaw-wielding madman stalks the campus of a Boston college, collecting pieces of beautiful co-eds for a "jigsaw puzzle" he is assembling

Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.