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Slavery in America Videos
"In 1976, Haley
published
Roots: The Saga of an American
Family, a novel based
loosely on his family's history,
starting with the story of
Kunta Kinte, kidnapped in
The Gambia in 1767 and
transported to the
Province of Maryland to be sold
as a
slave. Haley claimed to be a
seventh-generation descendant of
Kunta Kinte, and Haley's work on the
novel involved ten years of
research, intercontinental travel
and writing. He went to the village
of
Juffure, where Kunta Kinte grew
up and which is still in existence,
and listened to a tribal historian
tell the story of Kinte's capture.Haley also traced the
records of the ship, The Lord
Ligonier, which he said carried
his ancestor to America.
Genealogists have since
disputed Haley's research and
conclusions, and Haley made an
out-of-court settlement with
Harold Courlander, who had sued
him for plagiarism."
Source:
Wikipedia"Slavery in the United States had
its origins with the first
English colonization of North
America in
Virginia in 1607, although
African slaves were brought to
Spanish Florida as early as the
1560s. Historian
Ira Berlin "begins with what he
calls the 'charter generations.'
These 17th-century black settlers
entered areas like Dutch New
Netherland, the English Chesapeake,
French Louisiana or Spanish Florida
with an indeterminate status that
only gradually evolved into slavery.
Their debasement was driven by the
European demand for workers who
could be used to exploit the
economic opportunities offered by
the New World."
Source of picture and quote:
Wikipedia
"In 1976, Haley
published