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Kevin Garcia
Period 2
5/18/06
Roots
The story of roots starts in Africa during the 1700's. Kunta Kinte, an African youth, is going through his manhood training to be a man. I don't know how well that will work in our time. He is taught many lessons, Fights a wrestler, and performs other religious rituals. One task was for him to go out and catch a bird without killing it. Something I wouldn't be able to do. During his search he sees white people and runs back to camp. He tells the tribe leader and everyone is warned about the white people who put you on a boat to a far away land. When his Manhood training is over he returns to his village. He gets his own hut and doesn't have to live with his parents anymore. That would be cool to have nowadays. So anyway he decides to go out into the woods to fetch some wood to make a drum for his little brother. While he is searching for the wood he is captured by Americans who traveled all the way from Annapolis, Maryland in America. I wouldn't have gone through all that trouble for my little brother. They captured some more Africans and put them on a boat to America. Once in America, At a slave auction, Kunta is bought for $850 by John Reynolds of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Given the name "Toby" and assigned to work as a field laborer on Massa Waller's plantation, Kunta proceeds to escape four times over the next four years and is punished, each time more severely. See Kunta Kinte is too brave for his own good I wouldn't try to escape four times. maybe once is OK. Unlike the American-born Blacks on the plantation, who have not been taught to read or write and are treated more like children than adults, Kunta can read, write, and speak fluent Arabic, and...
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