In the first episode of Roots, we meet two main characters: Kunta Kinte, a young boy growing up in the area of Gambia in West Africa, and Captain Davies, the new captain of a slave ship.
Kunta Kinte
We
meet Kunta Kinte as he is born, grows up and goes through manhood
training. We learn a little bit about what his tribe believes and how
they live. Soon after he goes through his manhood training, he is
captured by slave traders and taken aboard a slave ship headed for
America.Captain Davies has just become the captain of a slave ship and he is not sure how he feels about slavery. His First Mate, Mr. Slater tries to teach him how to be a “good” slave ship captain, but it is very hard for the Captain to adjust. He is basically a good man who finds himself doing a very bad thing.
Captain Davies
As the episode ends, Kunta Kinte and 160 other slaves are captives onboard the Lord Ligoneer and are trying to find a way to escape.
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ReplyDeleteWrestler
Today is the beginning of manhood training. I look forward to this every year. I am able to help our young men on our tribe become the men they will become. This year the boys have a real go getter his name is Kunta Kinte. The first few times the boys were offered to try and wrestle me he was the only one who volunteered. He has little to no experience wrestling so he was no contest for me. I was impressed with his willingness to try, even though he didn't know what he was doing. I later asked Kunta to go for a walk with me. As we walked I asked him which animal in the forrest had the most courage. He responded with a very immature response, the best kind of courage. He changed his response to warthog. Though the warthog is courageous, he is also one of the first animals to fill our pots after a hunt. I can tell that Kunta is very brave but he is immature. I hope that he heeds the warnings that Kintango has given the boys in manhood training.
OJ Simpson was chasing Kunta Kenta because he fell on OJ's daughter, Fante. OJ didn't seem to mad at him. After OJ chased him, he wanted to know his name and why he fell on his daughter. Kunta Kenta said he fell on Fante because he was chasing a bird. When he was chasing the bird he tripped over a rope and he fell over OJ's daughter, Fante. After Kunta Kenta told him why he fell over his daughter, OJ told him good luck finding his bird. Then OJ told him to leave and go find his bird. When Kunta Kenta left, he did find his bird and, OJ Simpson, and Fante carried on with their work.
ReplyDeleteHow did OJ feeling about what was going on in this scene? Good job on retelling the story.
DeleteMr.Slater
ReplyDeleteI have done this trip many times. I respect the caption like a friend. I follow his orders like I should. These slaves are like cattle. They grumble and grone all the time. I thought the caption never dank. He told me he does thinks on this trip I wonder what he does. These blacks are stubborn. Theses blacks are animals. Some times I don't know what the caption talks about.
Once they die we throw then over board for the sharks. These slaves dance like monkeys.
I also have no clue what they are saying. The caption does not do what we normally do on this trip.
Some spelling mistakes but you did a good job reading into the thoughts and feelings of Mr. Slater.
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DeleteAustinW,hour3
ReplyDeleteDavies thought this would be a quick trip and leave, but he wasn't exactly sure if America needed slaves. As he is checking off the supplies that they needed to keep the slaves from running, he got to thumb screws and was not sure if thumb screws should be used. Davies is demanding to Mr. Gardner 170 healthy slaves to be found or sold. Captain has never seen negro people so he asked one of his crew mates what they were, but it was a bunch of made up lies about them. The chains they used on the slaves were: thumb screws, wrist chain, ankle chain, and neck chain. Captain wasn't happy about the voyage to take slaves. He is worried more slaves die off, he can't get back home. He has captured all 170 slaves and now chained all of them. He does not like the way the slaves are treated and is mad at Mr. Slater the things he is telling him. He doesn't want to throw over the dead slaves overboard to the sharks but he does want the slaves clean. Captain hates this job and regrets taking the voyage. He doesn't like this voyage because it ruins the negro's lives. He doesn't like treating people terribly.
Good perspective. Well thought out, well edited.
DeleteNatalyaW,hour 5
ReplyDeleteI am Kadi Touray. I have an amazing wife and daughter. My family is African-American. We like to wear jewelry and wear clothes we like. My daughters name is Faunta. We sailed and traveled to this place all togetther. We picked a camping area to stay near water. We got set up and decided to make some food. My daughter wanted to start it. So I let her. She was just to sart when a boy run through our area and run into my daughter. She dropped her cooking stuff on the ground. He just kept on running. I was so mad. I just started to dash after him. I caught up to him and made him come back to the camp area. I had him apologize to my daughter. Then, I had him pick up the mess he made. While he was doing this he told me he needed to get a bird without killing it and without a weapon. So I decided to let him go. I told him that I give him lots of luck getting the bird.
I just really think people need to show more respect. That boy got really lucky. I could have done something much more worse than just letting him go. He needs to be much more careful. I feel everyone deserves respect. I just hate it when people run into and doesn't even say anything.
Good understanding of the situation. Well thought out. Not very polite.
DeleteMadeline P. 5th hour
ReplyDeleteI am to excited. My wife has just given birth to a baby boy. I must name the baby. What will I name him? I go to hill and yell into the night sky. Now I know. He will be Kunta Kinta. 15 years later: My son is growing. He came to me today telling me that a leopard got a sheep. I asked him what he did. He said he scared it away with his slingshot. I did not believe him. He told me that it was so. I yelled at him, telling him to never go near a leopard. I then showed him my scar I got from doing this when I was his age. A few days later: I just captured my boy for is men training. He must become a man, a warrior. A few months later: Where is my son? I have looked all over and cannot find him! The last time that I saw my son was after I built his hut for him. That was a few days ago. My wife is worried sick. As am I. I have gone out with many other men and have been looking for him, but he is nowhere to be found. My son. Is it my fault? I head back to my hut. I see my wife in the hut. I must tell her. As I do, I see the horror in her face. I feel her pain. Once I am done, she falls to her knees and screams. I want to do something, but I cannot, as I stand with my tribe.
Jackson lange sept. 25 5 hour/2012
ReplyDeletei am vary frustrated because my partner Mr.slater is con fusing me because he is talking about some much I am confused I do not know what to do I do not want to remember what terrible things that we are doing to the people hopefully I don't get reminded about what we are doing. The blacks are screening in the boomed of the ship I'm trying to pray because I'm upset. We had to let them out to they stink something fears now we have to clean them they are full of poop pee and puke they have cuts all over there body's and we are putting salt water on them they are screaming I can not under stand what they are saying. It's time for them to eat so we have to go down in that smelly hole to feed them.now some of them are dead this is not good we are losing them w have to throw them over board I wish that I did not take this job because I am hurting there family's Mr.slater gave me a body warmer to sleep with she dose not talk.
Mia Angelo Brennan wischnack fifth hour
ReplyDeleteCunta was to become a man today. I am very excited. But i needed to set him straight. He was walking around like he didn't have to obey me. I told him he was gonna listen to me obey and respect me. I'm happy he is a man but he must not lose his head. It is good that he has more capabilities. Now that he is a man he thinks he doesn't have to take orders from women but I am his grandmother and he will do as I ask. He must obey his mother too. He is a good boy though. And he is strong. I hope his little brother is the same way. To see if he was going to obey me I told him to go out and make a drum for his little brother. He ran along and did it just like I thought he would. But he didn't come back. This had the whole village worried. His father and other village men went out to look for him and the others missing. His father and the others came back with horrible news. They have been taken by those whites. It is awful.
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Kunta was supposed to have his manhood training yesterday and he came back and he wasn't as childish as he used to be. I was very excited to see him again but I needed to remind him that he still had to listen and respect his family. Am very happy that he is now a man and I am happy that he is going to more capabilities. I know he is a good and strong boy and I hope his little brother will be too. I tested him by asking him if he could make his little brother a drum, and just as thought he'd do he ran off to do it. But after a little bit he did not come back. His father and other villagers went out to look for him and his friends. They came back with terrible news that Kunta was taken by the whites. I was devastated. It was awefull.
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Hour 7
Wrestler
Episode 1
Today is manhood day. I'm going to teach these young people to become men. This is my favorite time of the year. I like to teach these young men. Kunta Kinta is really into fighting me. These other boys are too easy. Kunta is doing very good at this. I'm impressed how far these boys have gotten. I asked Kunta what animal has more courage. He responded with the animal "warthog". The warthog is courageous but it also fills our bowls with food. Kunta is very brave but also very immature. I still hope he finishes his manhood test. I can't believe I got captured. I can't believe that our best boy got captured. He probably should have listened to the rules we taught him in manhood training. I feel so terrible. now they've thrown me down on the ground and I have to stay like this for 3 months.
Nadia B
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Social Studies
Roots Blog
Wrestler
I am the Wrestler. This is the first day of Manhood training. I am about to wrestle Kunta Kinta. I am going to wrestle a couple of other men in this training camp too, after Kunta Kinta. After wrestling Kunta and the other men, they are all almost passed out. Very tired, looks like I wore them all out. "Everyone has courage though", I say to Kunta Kinta. "I can't teach you everything, Kunta Kinta." I'm totally heart broken about Kunta Kinta. I feel so bad, that he has to live like this and all of these men, and me have to be treated like this." Kunta, Kunta Kinta." I heard a shot. "Kunta listen to me I say." Everyone is sea sick. I hope I don't get puked on." Kunta, we have been chained in her for a long time". Kunta Kinta asks me where the river bank is. I don't reply. I tell Kunta to eat the food, even if it is not good, he needs it. I just want Kunta to survive, and not be starving. I eat my food though. We have to stay in this ship for three(3) months. It is terrible. I am listening to Kunta tell me a story. We are all one village. "Whom is man Tinka?" I ask all the men.
Kallie U.
ReplyDeleteHour 5
Kunta Kinte episode #1
I cannot believe this! My father just put some sort of cloth over my head and I am being brought somewhere. So I have just been brought to manhood training. Just when we got there I was frightened when I got there and talked out of line, and he asked me my name. When the wrestler was here I was the only one to step up, and try to fight him. I got thrown around crazy no wonder I am so sore. Even then I continued to fight him, I tried ignoring the pain. Then later that evening he called my name, so I went out there and he talked to me about courage. I really appreciated that. Then when I went back to where we had to sleep my friends tickled me. Today I was assigned to catch a bird using only my hands, and I was chasing it and I stumbled of into a lady, and got hit multiple times. When I was heading back I saw a white man on our native land. So I hid for all my life hoping he wouldn't find me and would leave. He did eventually then I went right back to manhood camp and told them and now everybody is scared. I just want to be a man!
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I am here at the first day of the manhood training. I am facing off with Kunta Kenta and I throw him onto the ground. Then after I defeat that person, I stand in the middle of the group, cross my arms, and wait for someone to volunteer to face me. I made all of the boys very tired. Then I see Kunta Kenta panting and I ask if he caught the bird. Kunta Kenta said no and I told him this: "I can teach you anything, but I can't teach you courage. You are a warthog, and are very strong." Then when we were captured by the whites, I said to Kunta Kenta:"There is no trail in water. I can hear shouts and music up above us." Then a bit later, the whites serve all of us slaves this yellow glop of food. Kunta Kenta leaves it alone, and doesn't even touch it. I said:" You need to eat your food! A warrior must eat his food to be strong! Even thought it is white man food, you should eat it to become stronger and to be able to fight them.
ReplyDeleteMr. Gardner was a man that does not care about how the slaves felt. All he wanted was money. He took the black, and put them on the boats to ship them to America to be sold and bought as slaves. He gave the captain of the ship a place to relax why he caught slaves. He told him he will go and catch many and buy some slaves. He watched as his blacks that helped him did the work for him. He locked the slaves in cages and put them in chains until they were put in the boat. He was planning to catch more than 170 slaves to put on the boat. He went into areas to look for slaves. He found many and let his black capture them. He laughed at them struggling knowing they were not going to escape. He then went and put them in cages. He put the cages near the boat and watched them carry the slaves into the boat. Knowing that they were just animals to him.
ReplyDeletesad to think that people were once treated like that and it was excepted.
DeleteMia angeloAs I snuck up on Kunta Kinte, I thought that he had heard me, but he didn't! So as soon as I got into his hut, I started to whack him with my stick to get his attention. I stopped, and we went out into the sunlight. He was a man, a warrior, and I knew that. Just because he was a man, does not mean that I shall treat him like a man. I told him that he must respect me. I also asked that since he is a man, what he plans on doing. He said that since he is a warrior he will do what he pleases. I suggested that he make a gift for someone. I told him to make something for his mother, who he had just left, since he is now a man. He told me that his father was going to create a shelf in their hut. Then, I said that he has two brothers who would live a gift. He said he would make a drum. He said he would go out tomorrow, and look for a hollow tree trunk to make the drum with. After that, I walked away feeling very successful.
ReplyDeleteIs was a very strong and determined woman. Good details
DeleteMr. Grander slave trader.
ReplyDeleteI was walking through the woods. I tried to kill a bird and the gun back fired. I needs to catch 170 blacks. I caught Gonta Tanka. We throw a chain around him. I pulled as he pulled back. I pulled even harder. I also found the wrestler. I put all the blacks in the under the boat. The sate off to the America
You needed more details. Mr. Gardner is a deeper character than what I've read.
DeleteAnna trucke hour 3
ReplyDeleteI am the wrestler. Right now I amateur manhood training. Kunta Kinte was the first one to face me. He didn't succeed. After him I waited for more people to try. They all started coming after me like a heard of buffalo. I defeated them all. When I asked if Kunta had gotten the bird he said no. He was panting like a maniac. He said that the white men were here. When I was captured, along with Kunta Kinte and Fanta, we were treated like animals. We boarded the ship and when I woke up, we were under the ship. Everyone was screaming and yelling with terror an pain. When Kunta wouldn't eat his food, I told him that all powerful men have to eat their food. He said that when he eats it it makes his stomach turn up. I knew how he felt. Mine did that too. When they splashed us with the salt water, the pain was unbearable. We screamed and screamed until they stopped. When we had gotten back under the boat I made a plan. We were going to kill the white men and survive. There are at least 170 of us, and 60 of them are woman. The men will fight. I told everybody that even though we are multiple tribes, we need to act as one, if we want to win. I told them all... We will win.
Good details. He is a strong intelligent and patient man.
DeleteErinD 5th hour
ReplyDeleteI was trembled by a young boy. He seemed like he was in a hurry. My father chased after him.When my father brought him back. He made him apologize....
I was strangled by white men. I was brought to a cell I have never seen before. I was so scared and nervous. I was glad to see Kunta Kinti. We were brought on this big wood thing. I didn't know how long I was going to be on it. But I knew while I was on that wood thing, trapped, tightly squished, it wouldn't be very nice trip. W had been laying here for days. In filth. I don't think I have ever been in worse conditions ever in my entire life. I saw Kunta Kinti again. But this time. Me and a few moe girls were being taken somewhere...
I was kneeling down. I was scared. I didn't know what just happened. Then. Kunta Kinti came to me. He said a few words. Then he left. Next thing I know what a lot of fighting broke out.
Well told. Interesting details about a young girl girl whom was treated horribly.
DeleteMatthew Maisch
ReplyDeleteHR. 5
Mr. Gardner - slave traders
I was in the woods with slaves I gust captured. I tried to shoot a bird that I saw. I heart his hand when my gun backfired. I talked to the captain and he told me that he didn't care how hard it was to chapter them he was just in charge of getting am many as he can back. I have to going gather 170 blacks. Than I have to bring them to the sip were they will be for 3 months. I was running into black all over the place. Some of them were alone. One of them were in the wood. It looked like he was hunting or something. He was in long grace so I am pretty shire that he was hunting. It took a long time but my slaves and I cote him and put him I chains. He tried to get away but I new that he would not be able to get away so I left him.
Take your time and edit spelling. Good details about a man who must not have a conscience.
DeleteNick Nolan 7th hour
ReplyDeletemy charecter is Kintango.
Today is the beginning of manhood training. I was giving a speech to the children about there rights and what they will be doing for their training. During my speech a boy named Kunta Kinte interrupted and started asking questions. I told the boys about a man in our village named Wrestler. Wrestler is a big strong man who wrestles the boys, teaching them how to fight back. I called out Kunta Kinte to go talk to wrestler. Wrestler gave him a task to go find and capture a bird alive. When Kunta Kinte came back he told us he saw white men passing with slaves. I had to tell them about the white men, that they are bad men trying to capture us. I warned them to stay away from bushes and tall grass, and to never go out in the woods alone.
He is an old, wise man. Watching the movie it seemed that he did a good job giving the young men instructions. However, sometimes young men forget. Too bad for Kunta, his lack of attention cost him his freedom.
DeleteTom Theisen period 3
ReplyDeleteMy character is: Binta - Kunta's mom
It is the day that my new son is born. My husband well take him and name him soon. He took him today and named him Kunta kinte. I have done all the chores that I have to do, the day the Kunta Kinte had one of our sheep die. My hatband told him to be carful with those wild animals because they are dangerous. The day after Kunta kinte was done with his test on being a man, he came to me and said I am a man and I will live by myself. I said great I will get your dad to bild me a cabinet in that corner, then I said I will miss you. When I found out that he was captured by the white I was very very sad and mad.
Make sure to check your spelling. Try to use more descriptive words to illustrate Binta's pain.
DeleteRachel Hanson Hour 7
ReplyDeleteOmoro- Kinta's Dad
I am a black man. I was overjoyed when my son was born. I loved looking into his beautiful eyes of a future warrior. He made me so happy. I brought him outside at night and lifted him up to the gods, for a name. Yes, that's the perfect name. Kunta Kinte. 15 yrs later****
My sin finished his breakfast. "Take care, my son." I said as he was leaving. My son came up to me and told me he had driven out a leopard with a slingshot. "You have much to learn!"
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When my son went into the shack, I put a sack over him to bring him to his training. It was now his turn to become a warrior. A man. He was no longer a child. I watched him leave for training.
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I was walking and found a skin laying on the ground. It was my sons. He has been captured. "MY SOONNNNNNN!!!" I yelled to the heavens.
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I grabbed a spear, and my tribe, and began hunting for my son. Meeting up with people and demanding her to tell me what became of my son. She just covered her head and screamed.
Excellent use of descriptive words. It is tough being a parent especially if you were to ever lose one of your children.
DeleteMia Angelo- Kunta's grandma.
ReplyDeleteToday I found out my grandson has become a man. I also found out he has greatly disrespected his mother. Men! She was just telling him to go find his hut to put his stuff in it, and he growled,
" Women shouldn't tell men what to do." He thinks he knows everything! I found him dancing in his hut, and I pulled him out to set him straight. I told him he needed to do something nice for his mother. He agreed make his little brother a drum. He promised to set out the next day.
What have I done!? Kunta set out to find a good drum-log, like he promised, but foolishly went out by himself! When he hadn't come back for hours, a war party was sent out after him. They returned with his satchel. This could only mean one thing. Kunta had been captured by the white men!
Well done. I like how you added a little of your personality to Mia Angelo's character.
DeleteGabriellaH, hour 7
ReplyDeleteNyo Boto-Mia Angelo
Today Kunta Kinte is coming back from his training on how to be a man. I am very excited to see him, but mostly on how he has changed. I saw him arrive at his new house, and could see he was very happy because of the way he was jumping around and how he swung on the wooden post holding up his home. I didn't realize he did not see me until I accidentally scared him. He talked to me as if i was a dog and he my owner. I didn't like this and told Kunta that even though he is a man, he must still listen to his mother and I, his grandmother. Then I had to ask him about what was on my mind. So I asked what he will do as a man? He said what every man says. Find a wife and take care of the tribe. Then I asked if he was going to make gifts for his family. His response then was, "Yes, yes I will go in the morning to gather some wood to make a drum for my little brother." I nodded and heading to my house.
Nice job gabby
DeleteGood details. Mia Angelo's character is a strong opinionated woman. She made sure to keep Kunta in this place.
DeleteKadi Touray-OJ Simpson
ReplyDeleteEpisode 1
Madison Haag
I am father of the girl who kutikinta landed on. I am is traveling with my family. I want him to apologize for hurting my daughter. I am a kind hearted man. I was on the shore of the beach with my wife and my daughter traveling to a village and I wanted to know if we were getting close but Kutikinta ignored me to try to catch the bird. I was upset that kutikinta did not apologize in the first place.
I feel bad that my daughter got hurt. I said peace to kutikinta and offers kutikinta luck to catch the bird. I was also told by Kutikinta about him going on his manhood journey and that's why Kutikinta hit my daughter. We were preparing food when the rude boy knocked my poor daughter down. I did like the boy and forgave him.
I looked very fancy with my jewelry and long robe. I kinda looked like a very important man or a leader. I really hope that my daughter is fine and that Kutikinta succeeded with his bird. I really care about my family and hope we are getting close to our destination. I enjoyed the brief excitement.
My daughter was taken by the white men. I tried to fight. But she was taken and I probably won't see her again.
Excellent description of the events. It is really sad to think he'll never see his daughter again. And I think it can be assumed that he was killed by the slave traders.
DeleteMady Hoese 3rd hour
ReplyDeleteI am Fanta, OJ Simpson's daughter. I was minding my own business when a man comes up out from the woods and knocks me down to the ground and my stuff I was holding goes everywhere! He ran away with no apology. My father caught him and brought him back to apologize and pick up the things he made me drop. His name is Kunta Kinta. My father was not to mad at him. Then we said goodbye because he had a bird to catch! A while later, I got captured by white men. They threw me in a pen. Where I saw Kunta Kinta agian! He asked me where my family was. I said they were safe. I also said my father is brave and he will come save us! He seemed very doubtful when I said that. I was still laying on the ground, with the other slaves around me. The white men then put us on the boat, the boat was horrible! The called me and the other women on the boat, wenches and belly warmers. The white men would use some of us to satisfy there own needs, which were horrible things.
Horrible doesn't even begin to describe it. Terrible things that were acceptable during this time period in our nations history.
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ReplyDeleteMr. Gardener
I can't stop grinning. I've fulfilled my job- my mission, what I have been trained to do. Catch blacks, bring them to the ship, make Captain happy. I have achieved that goal. I have seven blacks already, and I just arrived here in Africa. I have to say it isn't the nicest place to be with the extreme heat and overgrowing jungle full of dangerous plants and animals. I'm surprised such mindless creatures can survive. I'm incredibly wise and I have a hard time getting around the green.
Me and my men continue down our invisible trail, where, according to my compass, is heading towards the beach where the captain and his men are coming on the ship where we will load the slaves and bring them back to the Americas.
I noticed before we started sailing that Captain Davies seemed very hesitant about the slave catching. I, of course, didn't mind it because I have been waiting for it since the idea of slavery in the States was even brought up. But I had a strange feeling as we sailed off a few days before him that this mission might not be successful with his dull attitude.
A tree branch slaps in front of my face and I scowl, pushing it away forcefully. I haven't been having a great relationship with the African nature. I am bug bitten and scrapped from the exotic plants.
The blacks keep groaning and screeching, but I block it out. They are useless animals and have no important feelings.
We keep stumbling through, and I hear a bird. A turkey, maybe. I step away from my men and the blacks, listening harder. It squawks louder, and there is some rustling behind a large tree, that actually looks like you could find in the States. I pull out my small metallic pistol, ready to shoot and kill the bird. He looks like something that is meaty, something we could eat if we don't make it to the beach before sundown. I doubt we will have to, considering the water can be heard from here. My mind might be playing rotten tricks on me, though. These plants might be poisonous but I just don't know it.
I see its feathers jumbling around, like its trapped. Perfect. I load a bullet and aim, one eye closed to gain more accuracy. Some feathers float to the ground as the bird struggles. I start to wonder why it is so fearful, but it is too late now. The bullet shoots into the air, making a large booming noise. Except, nothing happens. The bird escapes its predator and runs away, squawking and screaming for its family. I feel a sudden pain in my hand that is holding the pistol, and I start screeching. I throw the pistol to the ground and shake my hand wildly, trying to reduce the pain.
Once it feels better, I scowl at the bird which must be miles away by now.
I catch up with my crew mates and the slaves, and we continue through the forest in silence.
The next day, I go out with my blacks, who have been hired to help me catch more. We creep behind trees and large brush, carefully examining the area for any blacks.
I hear rustling- a shade of brown popping up for a split second in some green. Aha!
"Go!" I whisper to the men, and the young black that was hiding takes off, but we run too.
I take out my whip and we run. Run for what seems like miles, into a field of nothingness. He keeps looking back at us, looking frightened, scared to death. But all it does is make me smile. Another. One more to the group. Another family with a slave. Another thing to do our dirty work. It's great.
We find more jungle, and we run more. I crack my whip a few times in the air, smiling proudly. "Go, go, go!" I yell again.
Suddenly, I loose my balance and fall to the ground, face first. I look up and see my blacks still chasing him. I stand and follow after them, into another feild. I peak out from behind a large bush. "Yes," I whisper to myself.
We got it.
Binta
DeleteBinta at the beginning was having a baby in a mud hut having a baby boy named kinta. Then him and his friend are out in the pasture and a sheep dies and binta is faithful that he is still alive from the attack of the animal. 15 years later kinta turns 15 tand binta makes him go to become a man out in the wilderness with the wrestler. Then binta got his clouthes and his blanket to move into the new hut by himself. The his mom told him his brother would fell better if he made him a drum. So he was off to find a log for a drum. Then binta was getting worried that kinta never came back from getting a log for to drum. Then binta sent her husband to go find kinta. Then went her husband came back all they found was his little bag. Then binta broke down she was a wreck, she was mad, sad, angry. Then that was the end of seeing binta in the first episode.
Good job Val
DeleteJake Hanley
DeleteMr. Slater is a sailor. I have done this trip many times. These slaves dance like monkeys. I follow captain Davises orders like I should. Once they die they throw them over board to the sharks. I have no idea what there saying. These blacks are animals. The blacks grumble and grone a lot. I respect the captain as a friend.
Val that was out standing. Excellent attention to detail.
DeleteMitchell and Jake H make sure you post your blogs as a comment and not a reply to someone else's blog.
DeleteMitchell, make sure you check your spelling. Good descriptive words towards the end of your piece, make sure it is like that throughout in our next episode.
JakeH, you need many more details. Please give it a second thought and try to put yourself in Mr. Slaters shoes, what do you think he was feeling and thinking?
Thanks Mr. Jempa :)
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ReplyDeleteToday is the first day of manhood training. I decided to wrestle Kunta Kinte. All he was doing was charging not actually wrestling. They were to easy. I told kunta kintay that i cant teach you courage but you can teach it to your self. I am told that Kunta Kinte saw white men while getting a bird. I have been captured by the white men. I am now talking to kunta kinte on the ship. I am telling him that we know you are a man and a warrior but ther is no point in fighting them or the chains. Now he is telling me there is no river banks and no earth. Now we are dancig for the white men. Now i am talking to Kunta telling to eat to be strong enough to kill the white men. I am saying that we will kill the white man and that we will be free. I am asking who is mandinka. I am telling them that we will kill and live and win.
Good retelling of the story. I would have been more interesting if you would have added how you thought the Wrestler felt about many of the things that were happening in the movie.
DeleteAustinR, 3rd hour
ReplyDeleteKintango
This is the first day of where young kids become men. I must teach them to be what all men must be. I have taken the to training camp ready to train. We must first teach them to wrestle. I have gathered the young kids in a circle to wrestle. Kuntakinte is the first to volunteer. Kuntakinte is very volunteering he would not give up after getting beaten over, and over,and over again. My very wise wrestler has taught him to become a man. Kuntakinte must now catch an animal without anything. Now I must teach them to not kill unless had to from becoming a slave. I have done my job they are now men. The whites are coming! Oh no we must get back to the tribe to help our tribe mates. Lets fight so one one is taken as slaves this is the last thing I want to happen. That would be horrible. Now I need to hurry before they capture us!
Well done up until the last couple of sentences. Kintango was not involved in being taken. They went back to the tribe because their manhood training had been completed. Continue to use descriptive words to describe the actions of your character.
DeleteI can't believe I had my baby today! I can't until he is named. It is tradition that the father will name him in eight days. We named him kunta kente. Fifteen years later. Kunta if off to manhood training. He will leave a boy and come home a man. He has returned from manhood training. He got his own hut. His father built it. Kunta kente is nowhere to found! The men have left to search. They have returned and they found kunta kente's sack. We can assume that he has been taken by the whites.
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DeleteBinta-Kunta's mom, Mariah B, hour 4
DeleteI just had my precious child named Kunta. My boy just left and he will come back as a man. Kunta is a man now so he will not be living with us. My heart is filled with tears my son has growing up to fast for me. My son will never come back again to see me. My heart is filled with tears and worries. He is now going to America to be a slave. I don't know what do now. I'm so angry! What was my son doing. He should know better. Those white men. We are more then slaves. I don't know what to think right now. My he is strong man he will come back to me.
Brevin, good retelling of the story but make sure to add some of the thought or feelings that your character may have been having during the movie. Make sure to add your hour as well.
DeleteMariah, make sure you add your blog in the comment box not the reply button. Good descriptive telling of the story. You added the feelings that you thought your character was feeling, nice effort.
Hello I am the grandmother of kunta kinta and i thought that he was very mean to his mother. So I told him tho do something that would touch his mothers heart. So he goes and makes his brother a drum.
ReplyDeleteYour comment need to be 1/2 to one full page. More details about your characters thoughts, feelings and actions.
DeleteJakeS, Hour 4
ReplyDeleteMia Angelo
After my grandson, Kunta Kinte, came back from his journey of becoming
a man, he went to see his new hut for the first time. This would be
his first home away from his family. He was very excited about it! I
wore my blue dress and the matching scarf wrapped around my head to
visit him for the first time in his new home. I slowly went inside
his hut and surprised him by swatting him with a stick. We made our
way outside and it was there that I shared my thoughts with him about
being a man. I told him that even if he is to grow as tall as a tree,
I will still be his grandmother and he will still respect me. I was
glad and proud to hear him say, "I hear you grandmother." I told him
that he was a dirty rotten baby when I first saw him and now he is a
man. I also told him that Allah is still considered greater than he
is. I did not want him to forget that. I wanted him to think about
what he is going to do now that he is a man. I thought he should
really think about what this means. I told him that his mother missed
him a great deal while he was away. He suggested building a shelf for
her because he knew she had been wanting one. I asked him to think
about his baby brother and that a gift for him would touch his mother
as well. He said he would look for a tree that he could use to build
his brother a drum. After he shared his gift idea with me, I smiled
because this pleased me. I could tell the thought of building a gift
and giving this gift to his brother pleased him as well.
Excellent job, good retelling of the story and addition of feelings and thoughts that Mia had.
DeleteOmoro- Kunta's dad
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Omoro, i have a beautiful wife and i have a child named Kunta. I'm so happy that I have a child of my own now, I will give him a happy and wonderful life, Now at age 15 he is much grown, he is now a man and has seen all he needs to learn about this natural world. I have built a hut out for Kunta now that he is a man. He has moved out of our little hut and is now living on his own. But he has already made the mistake of going out in his own in the woods, and now the white man has taken him away. Now my son has been missing and captured. I have found his bag on the ground while looking for him, and I will treasure his bag in my own heart until he returns some day.
Good synopsis or your character. You did a good job of adding what you felt was the characters thoughts and feelings were.
DeleteFanta,
ReplyDeleteThere I was just setting up my family's fire. My father was watching me.Making sure I did it right.I was just getting done when something hit me.It hit me hard I was blown to the ground.I stood up.I looked a I saw a boy running into the woods.The boy destroyed the fire.The one I was almost done with.I looked at the path the boy left and I saw my father.My father graded this boy by his shoulder and demanded to know there name.The boy said his name was kunta kinte,and he needed to go catch that bird.My father refused to let him go.He said kunta must apologize to me,and set up the fire once more.Kunta tried to refuse,but my father said no he must apologize.Kuntancame over and quickly made the fire.He was about to go when my father said apologize.Kunta turned to me.I was grinning.He apologized with a very rude remark.Then started running.
Nice job retelling your characters events from the story. Make sure to add what you felt your character was thinking during the movie.
DeleteElsa T, hour 4, Kadi Touray-OJ Simpson
ReplyDeleteI was minding my own business when a young man in warrior training jumped on my daughter. She started to beat him with some weeds or something. I got mad so I chased him. He then told me that he is warrior in training. But he didn't tell me his name before he started talking. So I said Don't you respect your elders tell me your name before you start talking. He then told me that his name is Kunta Kinte and he is training to be a warrior and that he was trying to catch a bird. I told him that my name is Kadi Touray and I am traveling with my family. He told me that he is sorry for jumping on my daughter. But I told him don't tell me tell my daughter. So he did, and she forgave him. Then he left.
nice job retelling the story. In your blog for episode 2 make sure you add how your character was feeling and what they were thinking.
DeleteI just had my son. He will be strong. He will be brave. My husband names him kunta-kinte. I want my son to be fed. I am very proud of him for taking care of the sheep. I tell my son that he has been a good boy. I see Kunta get taken away into the woods. To get taught tone a smart tough man. I said a boy as left and a man will return. I tell him he can't live with us. I am happy for more space. I am trying to tell him what to do. He says he is a man now. I am now sad that he is leaving. He is happy to have is own hut now. My husband tells me that they couldn't find Kunta. I hope we can find him. I am really sad.
ReplyDeleteKunta's mom braxtonW 4th hour
You did a good job retelling the story but make sure that you add what your character was feeling and thinking in your blog for episode 2.
DeleteBinta-Kunta's mom, Mariah B, hour 4
ReplyDeleteI just had my precious child named Kunta. My boy just left and he will come back as a man. Kunta is a man now so he will not be living with us. My heart is filled with tears my son has growing up to fast for me. My son will never come back again to see me. My heart is filled with tears and worries. He is now going to America to be a slave. I don't know what do now. I'm so angry! What was my son doing. He should know better. Those white men. We are more then slaves. I don't know what to think right now. My he is strong man he will come back to me.
Make sure you tie the events in the story together. You did a nice job of writing about how the character felt.
DeleteEPISODE 1. KUNTA KINTE
ReplyDeleteWell He has just been born and he has gotten his name: Kunta Kinte.
15 YEARS LATER
He is great with the family's goats,but when he is talking to a friend
a mountain lion kills a pregnant goat. He try's to fight it off but he
can't and in runs away. So he brings it to his father and shows him.
His fathers says thatch he is not mad but that he should not run at a
dangerous animal. The next day he his going into his hut and his
father puts a bag over his head and takes him to "man camp." One day
when he is at man camp a wrestler comes and teaches them to wrestle
Kunta is the only one who volunteers when they ask. The first time he
try's he gets flipped on his butt,so he try's again and the same thing
happens. finally he sits down. Then the wrestler asks for someone
else. No one goes so Kunta goes again. After its over the wrestler
calls Kunta out of his hut and talks to him about having the wright
kind of courage. The next day they get an assignment to catch a wild
bird with just there hands. Wile he is out hunting he is chasing the
bird he runs into an girls named Fanta and nocks her over and messes
up what she is working on. So her father chases after him. When he
catches him he has Kunta apologies and fix what he broke then he lets
him go on his way.when Kunta is hunting for the bird he sees white
people so he runs back to camp and tells them. After he tells his
leader his leader tells the group. That you should never be alone if
you can help it. When he gets back from camp he is considered a man so
his father builds him a hut while he is going to his hut he sees his
grandma and his grandma tells to make his brother a present because it
would make his mother happy. The next day he goes out into the woods
alone to look for a good pice of wood for a drum. While he is in there
he gets captured bay the white men and taken to the slave ship. The
next day the tribe releases that Kunta Kinte is missing so they go
out and search for him but the can't find him. While he is on the ship
he starts talking to the wrestler saying that if they let him op on
deck he will jump off and swim to the river edge. A couple days later
he doesn't want to eat the white mans Food because it makes him
Throw-up, but the wrestler told him to eat it so he can have strength
to kill the white men. The next day he has a dream that there is a
huge white bird he is trying to hunt but it turns around and swallows
him up then when he wakes up he is in the ship. Later that day the
wrestler talks to every one about an uprising. A few days later when
they get taken out to get washed and dance the have an uprising. Many
people get killed including the wrestler. That I'd the end of episode
1
Nice job noah
DeleteNice job retelling the events from the story. In the next episode try to include what you felt the character was thinking or feeling about what was happening in the story.
DeleteAbbyB4
ReplyDeleteThe wrestler
I am giving Kunta advance. I also starting to puke onto the people below me. Everybody around me is sick by now. The white men came down and were take some of us with them. We were getting water thrown at us and it really stung. I am shooting dirty looks at the Captain while chanting "Whale To". We were sent back down to eat. A little while later the white men were back, they had come to take all the dead men and throw them overboard. Later that night Kunta is telling me about is dream. I tell him " we while kill the white men and go away. When I was up there I saw lots of men. I call to the the other men from my village and tell them to teach the man next to him to teach him your language, and together we will kill the white men.
Well done. Make sure to include how the character felt or what they were thinking.
DeleteI do not like the blacks at all. The only reason why I want the slaves is so they can do my work and I can sit here and smoke and drink rum with captain Davies. If there is anybody dead on my ship I throw em overboard and feed em to the sharks. All of these blacks are out of control. Captain Davies doesn't want the blacks to be slaves. They're all dancing like monkeys. I can't understand anything they are saying. Tomorrow will be a better day.
ReplyDeleteI really like your perspective. Make sure to state who you are. In the future, your write ups need to be longer.
DeleteDerek Anderson
ReplyDeleteBonita-kuta's mom
Kunta, my sun is getting big he is 15naow
I need fire wood to make the meell
The boy and the man will return
I told my sun he is a varry good boy
Kunta is picking all the time
I cried when I found out kunta was gone.
Derek Anderson
Bonita-kuta's mom
Kunta, my sun is getting big he is 15naow
I need fire wood to make the meell
The boy and the man will return
I told my sun he is a varry good boy
Kunta is picking all the time
I cried when I found out kunta was gone.
Derek Anderson
Bonita-kuta's mom
Kunta, my sun is getting big he is 15naow
I need fire wood to make the meell
The boy and the man will return
I told my sun he is a varry good boy
Kunta is picking all the time
I cried when I found out kunta was gone.
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Make sure that for episode two, you write about your character in paragraph form.
DeleteMiles korte
ReplyDeleteThe wrestler
He is bald and strong. He talks to Khunta khente. He gives advise to Khunta.
He wants to kill the white. He says he will kill all of the white and go home and says they are warriors. He says men chained together are all brothers. He says everyone will learn the same language. He throws a guy overboard. The wrestler dies by getting shot.
You need to write about your character as if you we're the character. It needs to be longer and you need to write about how your character feels about what is happening to them in the movie.
DeleteGarrett b
ReplyDeleteHour 5
I am sneaking on my grandson. I tell him to grow up because he is hanging on his house. I tell him that I am more powerful then u will every be. I tell him not to speak when I am speaking. I tell him that I am proud of him.then tell him that his parents are proud and missing him Nd u should be nice to her.then I tell him to make a nice thing for his parents because they did a lot for u . I give him some Ideas . Then I tell that his Idea is a good one. Then tell him that I love him and say my good byes.
Make sure you state what character you are writing as. It needs to be at least half a page. You did a good job of listing the events of Mia Angelo.
DeleteCapt. Thomas Davies eps.1
ReplyDeleteRiley Alger 7hour
I have just found out the boat I will be driving. I will be taking tobacco and making a pit stop at England for some spices. But I also be bring a lot of slaves that is the only that I will not be happy about. They have given me all of my thing an the boat. One of them is a brand which mean I will have to ingrave the slaves. I will not speak like all of my shipmates.
I have just found out I am going to have 170 slaves.the guy I am with has had 18 voyages like this.I am now at Africa. I am having a talk this guy how we are buying the slave from.
He said that it will be hard to get that many slaves.l. 200 slaves under my feet. I can hear them scream. We will need to get them universal the hatches they will exersise. We will clean the basement that smells very very badly. I do not want look at the slaves. I also want them be cleaned. But we have to use salt water. It gets in their cuts and they scream. They keep on saying whale to I do not know what that means.we now have one died slave I am not sure how many more . There is this black woman Mr. Slater has put in my room. I am very mad at him.
Make sure to check your spelling. You did a very good job of speaking as the character. Make sure that in episode two you try to either separate the events or some how tie them together.
DeleteFanta- O J's daughter
ReplyDeleteI was just working in my garden when a boy came running and he tripped and feel on me. Then the boy got up and started running again. Then my father stopped him and told him to come say sorry to me but he didn't. A couple days later I got captured by these white men and got put in this cage and then I saw Kunta Kinte. When I saw him we started to talk. We were talking about how our family's will come and find us and save us. Then one day the white men put us on a ship and we were laying on wood boards. We were also chained down on the wood boards by our ankles. The room we were in was dark and it smelt because we were puking. A few days later they took us out of the dark room and had us dance to a person playing the drum. Then they cleaned us with water and it hurt because the water was getting into our cuts. Then they gave us food that was yellow. Then at night I got brought up to a room with a white man. The next day they had us go back out of the dark room and dance again. Then we went back to that dark room and got chained back down again just like before.
Very good job of retelling the events in the story. In your next blog make sure that you write about what the character was thinking and or feeling.
DeleteI'm totally devastated that kunta is here, captured with me. Im not scared to be where I am. I must help kunta. We must be strong to kill the white man. They are wrong. Kunta must stay strong and I shall help him. Way-oh too. I'm confident to kill the white man . It's in our hands. I am strong and I can do this. Many people are dying, they're sick. The shackles are cutting off circulation. But this will only last for so long. We will either survive or we will die. Kunta and I might not be able to abandon this ship but we will sometime. Sometime soon. The white man is wrong. What they do to us is wrong. We must fight back. There are lots of us. If we can get some of those who speak the white mans language we could talk sense into him. But he may kill us. We need to fight on. We must.
ReplyDeleteExcellent job of retelling the events in the story and describing how your character felt.
DeleteCapt. Tomas Davies
ReplyDeleteHe quit the Mary Rose. His new vessel is talking slaves. He has to count neck, arm chains and they have to Bren the black. Davies doesn't call the black people names because of his Christian. He wants to to know what they are like. Capt. Davies didn't think anyone would be killed and died on the vessel. Davies just met the Gardner on the shore. They are talking about how many slave with fit on the vessel. Capt. Davies wants 175 slaves and the Gardner wants them to have 200 slaves. Davies wants more liquor when he is on the island. When they are on the ship Davies won't look at the slaves when they come up all he say is wash them off then he leaves. When the slaves are dancing Davies wants to know what they are saying. The caption goes in his room pulls his wig off. Then he gets mad at him self and he regrets being the caption of the vessel.
Jessica Z 4th hour
Make sure that you are talking as if you were the character. You should use the word "I" to describe your character. You did a nice job of retelling the events in the story. Make sure you check your spelling.
DeleteFanta - OJ's daughter
ReplyDeleteA boy just ran into me. It startled me so much that I dropped all the stuff I was going to cook. He said sorry while he was running toward a bird. My father must have been watching because he ran after the boy. He grabbed hold of him and got him to stop running. While the boy out of breath father asked him what he was doing and why he ran into me. Than he said "I was sent out to catch a bird without a weapon." My father, OJ said that he would need to go and apologize to me and pick up my things. The boy was pointing and mumbling to the bird and my father. Then OJ said very seriously "Please!" Then he looked up at my father and started walking towards me and said "I am sorry for you not hearing me when I apologized before." And he bent down and pick everything up and put it back in the pot it was in. Then he ran the way the bird went.
The next time I saw the young man. The was in a sell near the beach. I had been captured by the white man when they raided my village. I heard many people yelling and crying out. When I was captured I heard my father cry out. So that's how I saw the boy again we had been treated very poorly by the white man. And where put on a big canoe house. Where we many black people where jammed in to the bottom on top of each other. It smelt horrible and was the worst experience I have ever had my entire life.
Very good job of retelling the events of the story. In your next blog make sure that you write about what the character was thinking and feeling. She really had to get tougher once she got on the ship, otherwise she might have jumped off the ship as well.
DeleteI wis sitting there with my girl and his foolish man came and tackled her. I think he was trying to catch a bird. The bird went the other way and he count stop. He started to run and chased after him witch seamed to be a very long chase. When I count up to himself stopped. I really wanted to punch him and she said my name is Kunta Kinta. I told him I am the wonder full OJ Symson. He was very scared and I told him you just make her spill every thing and she fell. I bet in his mind he was thinking on my gosh what is he going to do to me he scares me and how am I going to get out of this. I finally told him to go say sorry and help what I have done. He went to her and picked everything up and ran off to the woods. I think that my daunter that that he was very cute but mean at the same time. Right before he left I told him that he was a bad bird catcher, but he didn't listen and kept running. In my mind he kinda reminded me of my self. Also I new that he was in training cause that was one of the tasks.
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Make sure that you state who you are and check your spelling. OJ Simpson is the actors actual name. Kadi Touray is the characters name. You did a good job of writing from the perspective of your character.
DeleteWhat hour do I have you??
I am Kadi touray. Today while me and my wife where fishing a young boy ran over my daughter fanta's fire pit. He was in a rush after a bird and I slowed him down. I told him to apologize. And I could tell he was mad for slowing his bird hunting down. I made him apologize an he was in great anger. As he said it. Then I told him to say it again correctly. Now he left and to get the bird the next day the white man came and took fanta. I am worried, I will never see fanta again.
ReplyDeleteNice job of retelling the events in the story. In your next blog make sure that you write about what your character was thinking or feeling about what is happening to them in the miniseries.
DeleteMr. Gardner slave trader
ReplyDeleteI have just gotten an order for 170 blacks. This is a very big order for a short time. I have gotten many blacks and, am walking them to the camp. When I hear bird. I decide to shot at it and miss this makes me very mad. But I have to keep going. I have just caught a new young black he fought and ran hard but we still got him. I have gotten my blacks loaded on to the ship. I am now done with that order.Which is a big relief this order was very big. I hope that they pay me a fair amount of money.
Make sure you have the correct hour.
DeleteMy character: Nyo-Boto Mia Angelo
ReplyDeleteI am Kunta Kintes grandmother. I think he has nothing better to do and should help his family out with chores. I finally convince him to make his little brother a drum.
You didn't retell your characters events. It is way too short. You did write from your characters perspective.
DeleteBen DuRand 3rd hour
ReplyDeleteFanta OJ's daughter, was doing her job in the village and then she got hit by untakintay on accident. Fanta Oj's daughter gotten kidnap and went into the cage with Untakintay. A day later She and the others that got kidnap, went under the boat and chand. She was pulled up to get cleaned and do something else. Later on she was pulled up again and she was in the captains room with the captain, she was his belly wormed, but he didn't rape her.
Make sure that you write from the perspective of your character, pretend that you are that character. You should be using "I" to describe yourself. In your next blog be sure to add what your character is thinking and feeling.
DeleteMake sure you have the correct hour.
DeleteI am going to go to go to a voyage to Africa to gat more slaves. I think that it is good when we take the slaves and bring them to America. Now we're about to get to Africa and get us some slaves. Now we're here and were going on to Africa. I believe this is my 18 time I believe. We have landed on there and I talked to mr. Gardner and he will bring us 170 slaves. A few days later he brought us 160 slaves and we started to go of to America. Now we are taking the slaves every day out side, giving them exercise and food. A few days later we had a slave throne over board.
ReplyDeleteMake sure that you let me know which character you are writing about. You did a good job retelling the events in the story. Make sure that in episode 2 you write about what your character is thinking and feeling.
ReplyDeleteWRESTLER
ReplyDeleteToday is the start of manhood training. I hope that this year the boys will put up a fight against me, but once I see them I know they are not very tough. My leader asks for volunteers and
a boy named Kunta Kintae stands up first. I get in my position and he gets in his and we start. He charges me and I easily throw him down. He tries again but does not succeed. Then another boy stands up. Again I throw him down and it keeps going until I have defeated every boy
and they are all on the ground. I knew they were going to be weak.
Once the boys are resting, I call Kunta Kintae out of the hut where he was also resting. He comes out with a confused look on his face, he was probably wondering why I wanted to talk to him. So we walk and I start to talk to him. I tell him that he has to be a fighter. He has
to learn to fight and be a leader that could rule a tribe. He has to
be tough, and learn the ways of the warriors. We then separated.
The next day the tribe heard very bad news. Kunta Kintae had seen
white men on the island.
The next thing I know the white men had me captured and I was in a
cage with other black people. I was tied up and so exhausted. I looked
around me to find other cages with even more prisoners in them. One of
them had Kunta Kintae in it! I looked at him, and he looked at me
back.
"Kunta Kintae." I said to him. He saw me, but did not speak.
The white men led us onto a boat and brought us down under. It was
all dark. They put chains around our feet and hands, and laid us down
in rows. After a while I notice that a few people over is Kunta
Kintae. He is fighting hard not to give up but this place is horrible.
Everybody is puking, pooping, and peeing all over; for we have no
place to go and we are chained up. Even I have puked after eating the
white men's food. I have puked so much that all that comes up is spit.
It is terrible. I am scared and nervous. I'm thirsty and starving.
They slowly take us up on the top deck. I do not know what they
are going to do. But I soon find out. The white men make us dance and
jump. They whip us if we do not participate. They also pour water on
all of us that makes our cuts sting and burn. I almost can't handle
it. Before they take us under yet again I look out and all I see is
water. No river banks, no land. Where have they taken us?
After they take us back under I talk to Kunta Kintae again. He has
refused to eat the white man's food but I tell him he needs to if he
wants to survive. All it does is make us throw up even more, but it is
food. We need to be strong if we are going to fight the white men. And
lately so many people are dying it is unbelievable. When they do die
the white men unchain them and take them above the deck. I do not know
what they do with them then for I have not seen.
During the night, or what we think is night, Kunta talks to me. He
tells me about a dream he had about being eaten by a big white bird,
which resembles the ship and the white people. When he woke up, he is
here. I tell him, and everybody else that we need to stay strong.
Otherwise fighting the white men won't even pay. But everybody is so
weak. I am afraid to even think about what will happen in a few weeks,
if any of us are even alive.
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DeleteSocial studies Ian bagge Wrestler
ReplyDeleteI Feel confident laughs and i tell Kenta that he is like a warthog courage. I like Kunta kinta he thinks he has potential.
I have been kidnapped and I am very sad that Kunta kinta is also kidnapped and is now with the slaves like me. I have called to him and told him my plan but he shouts out and try's to break the chain. I don't know what was happening when they where setting us on deck.
I am really mad and disappointed I call Kunta and I tell him to eat the food so he can be strong and kill the white men. I try to reassure Kunta that it was a dream I tell him that we can take the ship.
Mr. Gardner slave trader
ReplyDeleteAfter being in Africa for six months a new ship came to my camp. I talked to the captain and he was very bossy. He ordered me to catch 170 slaves as quick as I can. One day after catching a few Africans I saw a bird flying. I tried to shoot it but when I did my gun sprang back and hit me in the hand. A few days later I saw young African in the jungle. I started chasing him and I sent my workers to catch him. I sat back and watched. He got his knife out and stabbed one of them but they finally chained him up he still fought hard but he could not get out. After I got him we had enough slaves. I put them all in cages and had my workers wip them. I got my money and gave the slaves to the captain.
Mr slater wanted to capture 170 slaves to sell wen he gets back so he goes out and catches Kunta kinte and the wrestler and fanta and other africans he puts them in the bottom of the boat and he gets them out of the sell then he puts them at the top of the boat and washes them off with salt water.he gets them out a few days later and they had a plan to go kill the white men so someone hits the guy with the key and gets the key and the all get unchained and mr slater gets hit by a fling nife that Kunta kinte throw
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ReplyDeleteI was in my hut and kunta kinta did not finish his dinner so I told him to come inside and finish his food. The next day I was waiting for my son to get home from the man hood training and I told him good by because he had to go to his own hut. Then I was told that my son was taken from me and some of the village was gone to. I cried and cried "kunta". Please come back.
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He looks a little bit older than middle aged. He tell the boys what to do and when to do it and how long to do the task for. He is the training camp leader. He is very smart. He was a warrior when he was there age. He test them for their strength. They will be fast runners and they will learn how to shoot an bow and arrow by watching and listen for the hunters carefully with there ears form the sound they make when the hunters go from in the woods when they come to gather. He teaches them to have courage and stamina. They need to know what kind of courage they need to have. If you disobey and order you will be a child for ever in your family and they will treat you like one and not believe you. You must be on guard at all time. Never be alone never be out at night and keep away from reeds and bushes and stay away from the tall grass. Kintango said the white scent to him smells like chicken and he said "the white men are here". There is a ritual they do and they get circumcised. After wards they have a dancing thing they do. Kintango passed them from boys to manhood. He is now making them move out from home and do their own thing now and, behave, and do the right thing from now until they die. He told them to be aware of your surroundings and always watch your back and be with someone at all times and never ever be alone. He taught them how to be one huge tribe.
Binta Kunta's mom-
ReplyDeleteI was in my hut and kunta kinta did not finish his dinner and he was playing out side with his friends so I told him to come inside and finish his food then his father came in and told him to go deal with the goat. He ended up having to chase a cougar away later that day and skinned it and brought it to his father and got yelled at. The next day I was waiting for my son to get home from the man hood training and I told him good by because he had to go to his own hut. Then I was told that my son was
taken from me and some of the village was gone to. I cried and cried
"kunta". Please come back
Jace Johnson. Roots kunta kinte He is being born. Kunta is now 15 years old.does easy chores and listens to family. He is turned into a man at age 16
ReplyDeleteKunta fights the wrestler .kunta talks to wrestler .kunta saw assigned to kill a bird with out a weapon. Slaves are being taken he saw white men. kunta is now a man.he was abducted.
Kunta probily dose not knows going on was not spotted to go out alone. Kunta is caters and talking to people.kunta is now on the boat with others.says sleep lightly White mans food make him puke ? Kunta had a dream that he as running realy sper fast and got ate by huge bird and belly was the bottom of the boat.Kunta stole the key people going crazy kunta kills slater and saves wrestler . Wrestler now died they arrive in Marylad.
Episode 2 jace johnson kunta kinte
What is this man puting on me it hurts a ton they are treating like some anamail
The food is not the same fanta nothing here is the same .no fanta was just sold. I hope we see each other again what is this man saying . My name was changed from kunta hinte to Toby I belong to mozzarella what is that .i have found a axe head I don't know what to use it for . I have found it broke my chains.now I have to go run away
Fanta
ReplyDeleteMy family and I are traveling to a village. Then of no where kunta kinta had knocked over some stuff and then he ran away, but my father caught him and made him pick everything up. Next thing I know some white men caught me and I am now in a cage, and in the cage next to me kunta kinta. Then we were on a big canoe we couldn't find shore it was like a never ending river and one white man chased me around the big canoe i was so scared that I was going to die and I don't think I was the only one.
Episode 2 Fanta
ReplyDeleteWe got back on shore and I found kunta kinte, and a white man came to me and grabbed me I was so scared I didn't know what was going on at this point. They put me on this stage and their was some white men saying things and I couldn't understand I was so confused and before when me and kunta kinte and told me that we would find each other someday. When the white man took me I was very scared I wasn't sure what was going on anymore.
Mr slater
ReplyDeleteI am a christen who doesn't like the blacks i think the blacks are animal I also speak their language of grunts and groans. We are trying to find the blacks are mission is to get one hundred and seventy blacks. We are going the thought the middle passage I think they are going to arise and kill us. They are attacking us.
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I Capt. Davies had thought I was just delivering spices one country to another. I thought. I learned that I am also transferring slaves. I am a Christian. I do not believe in this! I put mr. Slater in charge of the below so I don't have to see my shame. We are at the island and I don't even want to be here. I look at the black people and I feel bad for them. What have I done? I hear the screams below my deck. I don't understand why this must happen. I don't want any of this to happen. I do not want any woman to toy around with me! Mr.slater is out of his mind. I will not look at them it discusses me to even look of what has happened. They are making them dance and I can't stand it someone please help them. Mr.slater is always laughing at them tired of it to tell u the truth. I hate working like this I cannot stand this I wish it would just end. This voyage needs to end quick before I get even more sick of myself. I regret doing this job I hate it so much! I wish I was home with my family. They just sent me a girl and I want to be friends. She is scared of the white people and I understand. This is why this will be my last trip.. I hope. I love the sea but I don't want to do this
Capt. Davies episode 1
ReplyDeleteI am a white, Christian man, and I don't know what I think of slavery. I'm not sure how I got to be captain, but it happened. Now i have 170 slaves on my ship, and I don't like it a bit. Not one bit. Mr. Slater is all for it, and he is my second in command. We are both the opposites, and I don't think it'll work out. But, my mission now is to deliver slaves to America. The whole time, when slavery subject comes, I just get a grim, sick look. The talk about belly-warmers and niggers just gets me sick. I don't know why I'm even in the South. I don't belong here.
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ReplyDeleteJa sam muskarac crnac mandinka iz Kuntinog plemena. Zovem se Nkomo. Rodjen sam nesto pre Kunte i upravo sam napunio 19 godina. Zivim kao ratnik u istom plemenu i prosao sam obuku u rvanju i muskosti. Cesto idem u lov sa ostalim odraslim crncima muskarcima i veoma sam uspesan u lovu. Imam i ceste susrete s jednom devojkom iz mog sela iz istog plemena. Cesto se nocu sastajemo i ljubimo.Zove se Mea.Treba da zivim s njom. Ali jednog dana uhvacen sam od strane belih ljudi i zatvoren u kvez. Detyaljno su me pregledali, usta,zube, oci, nos i zatim sam obelezen po ramenu usijanim zelezom. Posle toga smo nas petnaest crnaca muskaraca, vezani lancima oko vrata jedan za drugog, i lancima oko ruku, tako da smo obrazovali red i tako gonjeni sa strane od belog coveka koji nas je sibao, isli u koloni po jedan, do obale mora. Isli smo tri dana muceni gladju, zedju, svuceni bez odece, sa kratkim belim gacama oko kukova, bosi. Mucili su nas lanci oko vrata jer su otezavali hodanje. Drugi beli covek naoruzan kopljem nas je posmatrao sa strane, i hodali smo dok nismo videli veliki camac belih ljudi u koji su nas ubacili i odvezli do velikog camca belih ljudi koji je stojao sa krpenim jedrima blizu obale. Ubacuju nas vezane lancima u njega i spremaju ga za plovljenje. Ne znamo kuda nas vode. Da li cu ikada ponovo videti svoje selo, Meu i porodicu.
ReplyDeleteI am a black man from the Kuntin tribe. My name is Nkomo. I was born sometime before Kunte and I just got 19 years old. I live as a warrior in the same tribe and I went through wrestling and muscular training. I often go hunting with other adult black men and I'm very successful in hunting. I also have road meetings with a girl from my village from the same tribe. Often, we meet and kiss at night. It's Mea. I need to live with her. But one day I was caught by white men and locked in a grocery store. They examined me, mouth, teeth, eyes, nose, and then I was tagged on the shoulder with an ironed iron. After that, we were fifteen black men, tied with chains around the neck one after the other, and chains around our hands, so we formed the order and so driven from the side of the white man who was seated us, left in the column one by one, to the shore of the sea. We went for three days hungry, hungry, thirsty, stripped without clothes, with short white panties around the hips, barefoot. They tortured us around the neck because they made it difficult to walk. Another white man, armed with a spear, watched us from the side, and we walked until we saw a large boat of white people into which we were loaded and drove to a large boat of white people standing with crustaceans near the coast. They insert the chains connected to it and prepare it for sailing. We do not know where we are headed. Will I ever see my village, Meu and my family again?
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ReplyDeleteI am a black man from the Kuntin tribe. My name is Nkomo. I was born sometime before Kunte and I just got 19 years old. I live as a warrior in the same tribe and I went through wrestling and muscular training. I often go hunting with other adult black men and I'm very successful in hunting. I also have road meetings with a girl from my village from the same tribe. Often, we meet and love at night. It's called Mea. From now on, every night on the edge of the village we love, and especially when it's a month. When village ceremonies are decorated and armed with spears and shit, dance with other warriors our black dances. Mea then looks at me and smiles, and in the dance I turn to be amazed. I plan to live with her, with Me. But one day I was caught by white men and locked in a grocery store. They examined me, mouth, teeth, eyes, nose, and then I was tagged on the shoulder with an ironed iron. After that, we were fifteen black men, tied with chains around the neck one after the other, and chains around our hands, so we formed the order and so driven from the side of the white man who was seated us, left in the column one by one, to the shore of the sea. We went for three days hungry, hungry, thirsty, stripped without clothes, with short white panties around the hips, barefoot. They tortured us around the neck because they made it difficult to walk. Another white man, armed with a spear, watched us from the side, and we walked until we saw a large boat of white people into which we were loaded and drove to a large boat of white people standing with crustaceans near the coast. They insert the chains connected to it and prepare it for sailing. We do not know where we are headed. Will I ever see my village, Meu and my family again? A white man's boat sails, I'm with other captured men, tied up with chains, I sit in the lower part of the ship, and the heat is horrible, feeding us from wooden vessels, there is not much water, and we are sailing for days , and occasionally they take us on deck and dance to dance. I still do not understand that I am now a slave and I am no longer a free man.
ReplyDeleteI'm a black man from the Kuntin tribe. My name is Nkomo. I was born sometime before Kunte and I was only 19 years old. I live as a warrior in the same tribe and went through wrestling and muscular training. I live in a white-housed hut with a low hole instead of a door with my father, mother and brothers, who are the same warriors but already have their own huts. I often play hunting for other adult black men and I'm very successful in hunting. I also have travel meetings with a girl from my village from the same tribe. We often meet and love each other at night. It's Mea. From now on, every night at the edge of the village we love, especially when it's a month away. I am her first love, she said to me. When village ceremonies, with the sounds of the drums decorated and armed with spears and shit, I dance with other warriors with their black dances. Mea then looks at me and smiles, and in the dance I turn to be amazed. Women laugh with their hands and give us the dance rhythm. The dance lasts for a long time and we are black warriors by showing our skills and muscles. I plan to live with her, But one day, I was caught by white people, although I fought against them, with spits and shields, because I am a great and brave warrior. Still they mastered me and locked me in the store. They examined me, my mouth, my teeth, my eyes, my nose, and then I was tagged on a shoulder with iron-coated iron. After that, in a small hammock lifted on the shore of the sea, they squatted us with iron necklaces around the neck and iron bukagii around their hands. We had fifteen blacks, tied around the necks, one by one, and chains around our hands, so we formed the order, and so we drove from the side of the white man who was seated, left in the column one by one, to the shore of the sea. We went for three days hungry, hungry, thirsty, dressed without clothes, with short white gazes around the hips, barefoot. Chains around our necks tortured us because they made it difficult to walk. Another white man, armed with spear, watched us from the side and walked until we saw the big boat of the white people we were loaded into and drove to the big boat of white people standing by the crab near the coast. They bring the chains connected to it and prepare it for sailing. We do not know where we're going. Will I ever see my village, Meu and my family? White man's boat, I am with other captured men, tied up with chains, sitting in the lower part of the ship, and the heat is terrible, we keep us from wooden vessels, there is not much water, and we are swimming for days, occasionally going to sail and dancing for dance . A big boatschank with rocky sails swings but surely sails further. We've been sailing for weeks. I still do not understand that I am now a slave and I am no longer a free man.
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