Poots was an outrageous piece of absolute nonsense. It turned out to be wrong in just about every way, which was shown by professional genealogists. It was full of venom and hate for Southerners.
Lonesome dove was good.
I didn’t like Roots either. There was not one white person that was trustworthy. They would appear to befriend the slave, and then would turn on them. It did nothing for race relations except to make them worse.