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Roots(Part 1) In watching the movie Roots brings across a lot of historical significance of what it was like to be a black living in a village to find themselves as cargo in the bottom of a ship to be sold in the new world. Based on Alex Haley’s best-selling novel about his African ancestors, Roots followed several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga began with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700’s. Have been living in a society surrounded by family and friends to be forced to become a slave against your will. This is an experience only by the black race and we as white people will never know what it is like but we hear the stories to find out what it was like. The movie setting was in West African country of Gambia in the year of 1750 to Binta giving birth to her child. She was giving birth to her child on her own in the surrounding of her hut, while her husband Omaru was nervously waiting outside to find out the g