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Kunta Kinte is born in 1750 in West Africa. Later, at the age of 17, he's taken prisoner by slave-catchers and shipped to America on a vessel, where he encounters a conscience-stricken Capt. Davies and the unscrupulous Slater

A rebellion ensues on the slave ship before Kunta's arrival at Annapolis, where he's sold and meets a friend in Fiddler. Kunta attempts an escape after learning that the owner of his friend Fanta lives nearby

The adult Kunta Kinte has lost none of his rebellious will in 1776. When he's seriously injured in an escape attempt, a slave woman named Bell attempts to nurse him back to health