Kunta awoke to find himself blindfolded, gagged, bound, and a prisoner.
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. Burton reprised his role in the 1988 TV movie Roots: The Gift.Īccording to the book Roots, Kunta Kinte was born circa 1750 in the Mandinka village of Jufureh, in the Gambia. In the 2016 miniseries, he is portrayed by Malachi Kirby. In the original miniseries, the character was portrayed as a teenager by LeVar Burton and as an adult by John Amos. Kunta Kinte's life story figured in two US television series based on the book: the original 1977 TV miniseries Roots, and a 2016 remake of the same name. Haley said that his account of Kunta's life in Roots is a mixture of fact and fiction. Kunta Kinte was based on one of Haley's ancestors, a Gambian man who was born around 1750, enslaved, and taken to America where he died around 1822. 1822 / ˈ k uː n t ɑː ˈ k ɪ n t eɪ/ KOON-tah KIN-tay) is a fictional character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley.
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