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Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by Ipheyemmy01(m): 8:12pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
I can't remember if i watched it as a tv series or home video, but i watched this in the early 90s. Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Juffure, The Gambia. One day in 1767, while Kunta was searching for wood to make a drum for his younger brother, four men chased him, surrounded him, and took him captive. Kunta awoke to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound, and a prisoner. He and others were put on the slave ship the Lord Ligonier for a four- month Middle Passage voyage to North America. Kunta survived the trip to Maryland and was sold to a Virginia plantation owner in Spotsylvania County, Master Waller, who renamed him "Toby". He rejected the name imposed by his owners and refused to speak to others. After being recaptured during the last of his four escape attempts, the slave catchers gave him a choice: he would be castrated or have his right foot cut off. He chose to have his foot cut off, and the men cut off the front half of his right foot. As the years passed, Kunta resigned himself to his fate and became more open and sociable with his fellow slaves, while never forgetting who he was or where he came from. Kunta married a fellow slave named Bell Waller and they had a daughter who they named Kizzy (Keisa, in Mandinka), which in Kunta's native tongue means "to stay put" (he named her this to protect her from being sold away). When Kizzy was in her late teens, she was sold away to North Carolina when her master discovered that she had written a fake traveling pass for a young slave boy with whom she was in love (she had been taught to read and write secretly by Missy Anne, the niece of the plantation owner). Her new owner immediately raped her and fathered her only child, George, who spends his life with the tag "Chicken George", because of his assigned duties of tending to his master's cockfighting birds.
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Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by RichDad1(m): 8:17pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
my is is Kunta kunte |
Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by RichDad1(m): 8:19pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
my is Kunta kinte
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Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by eyeview: 8:23pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
RichDad1: Your name is Toby. |
Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by Andy790(m): 8:25pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
Don't really remember the pictures from the movie then Only remember his name because we all chorus it in our house... |
Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by Ipheyemmy01(m): 8:32pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
We watched it on black and white tv.... We call it Kunta Kunte the die hard slave. |
Re: Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by tpiadotcom: 9:54pm On Jul 20, 2015 |
What about him? |
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