Kunta kinte
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One of the main characters in Alex Haleys 1974 Readers Digest story series Roots.
One of the main characters in Alex Haleys 1976 book Roots: Saga of an American Family.
One of the main characters in Alex Haleys 1977 ABC miniseries Roots, which chronicles the lives of [Kunta Kinte] and his descendents. The young Kunta Kinte was played by [LeVar Burton] and the older [Kinte] was played by John Amos.
An African-American that lived in the 1700s. As a teenager, Kinte was captured in Africa by white slavers, taken across the Middle Passage, sold into slavery in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA, and renamed Toby. Kunta Kinte is Alex Haleys great great great great-grandfather.
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