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1750. Kunta Kinte was born in 1750, in Juffure Village.
Juffure. Kunta lived in Juffure Village. The village is four days upriver from the Gambia, West Africa.
Omoro . Omoro Kinte was Kunta's father. As the father, it was his right to name the baby. Mothers had no right in the naming of babies.
Binta. Binta was Kunta's mother. Her maiden name was Kebba. She gave Omoro four sons.
No. Kunta was the oldest of four children.
Talking drums. The villages communicated by way of the Tan-Tang drum, which is also called the talking drum.
Janneh and Saloum. Kunta and his father visited Janneh and Saloum, Omoro's brothers. They were the founders of the village Kinte-Kundah Janneh Ya. Which is one of the Gambia's oldest villages.
Yes. Yes, his uncles founded a village. The village was called Kinte-Kundah Janneh Ya.
Lamin, Suwadu, and Madi. Lamin, Suwadu, and Madi are the names of Kunta's brothers. In the oral history of the Kinte clan, these four sons were well known because their grandfather had saved the village.
Kajali Demba. Kajali Demba was the village Alimamo. It was his responsibility to call the men for the five daily prayers.
| There are three groups of people in every village. The first group were those you could see -- walking around, eating, sleeping, and working. The second group are the ancestors, and the third group are ___________________? | "Roots" Quiz, Part 1 - Kunta Kinte
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Those waiting to be born. Omoro told this to Kunta when his grandmother, Yaisa, died.
Old Mali. Kairaba Kunta Kinte was the name of Kunta's grandfather.He was a Marabout, a holy man. He traveled first to Pakali N'Ding, then went on to Juffure where he saved the village from a drought.
He was taken away to manhood training. When Kunta was at the end of the third kafo, he was taken away to the manhood training camp.
a wet chicken. Omoro told Kunta and Lamin that white men have a smell like a wet chicken.
1767. In 1767, Kunta was captured by slave traders. He was 17 rains (years) old. Kunta went to the woods to find a piece of wood to make himself a drum when the slave traders caught him.
Lord Ligonier. The Lord Ligonier brought Kunta to Colonial America. On July 5, 1767, the Ligonier had sailed from the Gambia and was headed to Annapolis, Maryland.
Massa John Waller. Massa John Waller first bought Kunta. He changed his name to Toby. Everytime another slave called him by Toby, he strenuously rebuffed them claiming his name was Kinte.
4. During the recapture of Kunta on the fourth time, he was caught by two white professional slave catchers. They gave him the choice of either being castrated or having half a foot cut off. Luckily for Alex Haley, Kunta chose his foot.
He had half a foot cut off. Because half of his foot was cut off, Kunta was sold to Dr. William Waller, who saved his life. Because of his handicap, he could no longer work in the fields and so he became his Massa's buggy driver.
Toby. Massa John Waller gave Kunta the name Toby.
Dr. William Waller. Kunta and the Fiddler were given to Dr. William Waller by John Waller, because he owed his brother money.
buggy driver. Because he was maimed, Dr. Waller made Kunta his buggy driver. This gave Kunta the opportunity to see more of the area in which he lived.
Fiddler. Fiddler was Kunta's best friend on the Waller plantation. Fiddler taught Kunta the English language.
f. Kunta met and married Bell, the big house cook. They had a little girl that Kunta named Kizzy.
Bell. Kunta married Bell. She was the big house cook.
Yes. Bell was two years older than Kunta.
They would get sold away.. When a massa knew that a slave could read, that slave was immediately sold away.
Missy Anne. Missy Anne was Dr. Waller's neice.
Waller's plantanion in Enfield.. Kunta met Pompey, a fellow Ghanian, at the Waller's plantation in Enfield. This plantation belonged to Dr. Waller's parents. They had recently aquired Pompey right before Kunta met him on one of the trips to Enfield that the massa went on.
Mortar and pestle. One day, Kunta made Bell a mortar and pestle. He did this because he liked her.
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