Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS - TV/Movies

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Did You Remember This Character "Kunta Kinte" In The ROOTS by Ipheyemmy01(op): 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.