Roots (TV series)

Roots was an American television series from 1977 to the book Roots: We blacks by Alex Haley.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == ===Kunta Kinte[ Edit] === The Mandinka Kunta Kinte is close to his village of Juffure in the Gambia by masters caught, and to Annapolis, Maryland shipped to be sold as slave . His slave name Tobyis.
 * 1.1 Kunta Kinte
 * 1.2 Kizzy
 * 1.3 Chicken George
 * 1.4 Tom
 * 2 main characters

After he variously has drained and again during his last escape attempt is detected, his foot chopped off by the slave hunters. At first he wants to have nothing to do with the other slaves on the plantation, and illiterate born. Kunta is a developed man, who speaks Arabic fluently, and can read and write. Only after 7 years he dare housekeeper to ask Bell in marriage. ===Kizzy[ Edit] === Kunta and Bell get a daughter, Kizzy, Kunta and try its so good and evil when it comes to her African descent. Kizzy is taken from her nursery age by Missy, the daughter of the plantation owner, very much against the meaning of Bell and Kunta. Missy teaches her to read and write, even though that is not allowed to slaves. As Kizzy ten years later falls in love with another slave, and writes a pass for him so he can escape is that its demise. The day after the flight of her friend is caught, and is transported to a slave auction Kizzy.

Kizzy is sold to Tom Moore, and she is raped repeatedly by her ' owner '. She is pregnant, and gives birth to a son who George is called. ===Chicken George<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George is employed by mass Tom Moore on the plantation, once he is old enough for there. In his spare time depends on George around at the chicken run, where Uncle Mingo is responsible for the roosters in cockfights are used. Over time, George the minion of Mingo at taking care of the roosters, and goes with Tom Moore to Cockfighting as a trainer. Soon he called Chicken George .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because George turns out to be a good trainer walk the merits for Tom Moore on. it is George allowed to with a few end-of-life roosters to participate in battles in hindsight alleys, and even there he succeeds in winning.He should keep the money he deserves, and George goes immediately to save himself and his family to be able to buy freely.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George should marry the slave Matilda, and they get eight children. As mass Tom Moore all he possesses loses in a Cockfight to an Englishman, George was sent to England as compensation. Tom Moore George promises that he will be free again as soon as he comes back.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">If George comes back he demands his freedom on, and know the drunken Tom Moore into revealing the liberty letter. Matilde and the children are sold, and George have to go looking. ===Tom<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Oldest son Tom Smith is become, and is married to the half-Indian slavegirl Irene. Also they will have eight children. After the American civil war is slavery abolished, and leaves the whole family. Oldest daughter Cynthia is the grandmother of writer Alex Haley. ==Lead Actors<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Maya Angelou -Nyo Boto
 * Moses Gunn -Kintango
 * Thalmus Rasulala -Omoro
 * Hari Rhodes -Brima Cachia
 * Ren Woods -Fanta
 * LeVar Burton -Kunta Kinte/Toby Reynolds
 * John Amos -Kunta Kinte/Toby Reynolds as an adult man
 * Edward Asner -Capt. Thomas Davies
 * O.J. Simpson -Kadi Touray
 * Ralph Waite -Slater
 * Louis Gossett Jr. -Fiddler
 * Robert Reed -Dr. William Reynolds
 * Lorne Greene -John Reynolds
 * Lynda Day George -Mrs. Reynolds
 * Madge Sinclair -Bell Reynolds