Were there any GAY slaves?

I doubt if people had TIME to think about being gay or straight. Seems to me only people who had the luxury of not needing families to survive actually cared about such things. (NOT saying that people did not have the urge. Who had the time to indulge in such things?) The only ones that might have done that if for no other reason than to show the slave who was boss was the "massa".

The sequel is called DRUM. And yes there is some homosexuality in there. The white man who can't get his eyes of the handsome strapping son of Mandingo etc. Don't want to say more as it will spoil the film for you.

The movie was probably Beulah Land with Hope Lange. The girl had been raped by her husband the night of the marriage (Don Johnson). The mother Hope Lange told her she had disgraced the family and to go back to her husband. She refused and stayed at home not seeing her mother, the slave girl was looking after her interests. I cannot remember the star of the movie it was made after ROOTS like ROOTS it was a mini series. I doubt if there was anything sexual in the relationship.

"I haven't seen roots since 1977 when it aired on network TV. When you asked the above question there is scene that sticks in my mind - it might be from "Roots" or it might be from another film with the same subject matter (slavery).

The scene I'm thinking up is the where the daughter of the owner (either an older teen or young adult) and a female slave, of the same age, are hold up in the daughter's room, upstairs at the top of a long staircase. The owner is downstairs screaming at his daughter when the black girl comes out of the room with a pistol and tells the owner to "leave them alone!"

Then she goes back into the room, slams and locks the door. I think there was something wrong with the white girl, she was having (what we call today) a nervous breakdown or something; and the black girl was taking care of her. But it was also suggested that the two young ladies were lovers."

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That scene is from another mini-series from the 70s called Beulah Land http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080197/

You are correct that the two young ladies were lovers. It was watered down for 70s television but the relationship was made very apparent.

There was a lot of homosexuality in those days.