Kunta Kinte

Kunta Kinte (also in the spelling of Kunta Kinteh ) is the name of a character in Alex Haley's novel Roots erschienenem 1976. As Haley believes to have found through your own research, to have been Kinte ancestor of a family of American slaves, the entstamme also Haley himself.

Haley reportedly Kinte was born in 1750 in present-day Gambia and came from the village Juffure, which the people of the Mandinka counting residents were Muslims.

Kunta Kinte is abducted by slave traders and taken to the July 5, 1767 on the slave ship Lord Ligonier in the then British colony of Maryland. At an auction in Annapolis, a plantation owner Kinte had acquired. As a result of his unruly behavior and two escape attempts was the African who had refused inter alia, to accept the awarded him slave name Toby, been abused repeatedly by his new masters. After the second escape attempt, the front part of the foot he had been cut off to the future to prevent it from tearing. According to Haley Kunta Kinte had died in 1810.

Although many of the events described by Haley are historically verifiable, the historicity of the person Kunta Kinte itself is considered not secure.

On February 6, 2011, James Iceland was renamed " Kunta Kinteh Iceland ".

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