[DBeers]

Movies dramatized and often fictionalized have great impact on many -I often wonder how many children that have not converted to Islam are named Kunta Kinte?

[FreedomCalls]

Re: "Roots". That piece of fiction (which claimed to be fact) has also done a lot of damage to people's historical understanding of slavery. In "Roots" a raiding party comes ashore and kidnaps Kunta Kinte from a peaceful life. In reality that would never happen. In reality a slave ship would put ashore and negotiate to purchase slave cargo from the local king.