Oh how I hated white people for capturing Kunta Kinte with ropes, and watch him give up.
Turns out that NONE of that was true.
Why the hell slavers would waste time "capturing" slaves like flies in a net?
It made sense that the slavers were businessmen, just like the Africans that sold them. You're not going to go all traipsing around looking for "prey", when all you have to do is just PAY some African lord some $ to get what you want.
And African lords were more than happy to accept white man's $.
Are you old enough to remember David Frost, the British actor and journalist who became the best in-depth TV interviewer of his generation?
Frost, who was a conventional Leftist, interviewed Alex Haley, the author of “Roots.”
Frost vigorously brought up the subject of Black African complicity in slavery.
Before that interview, not one white person I knew, including me, were aware of those facts.
By the way - can you remember who played the other slave captured with Kunte?
O.J. Simpson!