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Originally posted by MattUMASSD
One day when I have a lot of money to play around with I would like research my ancestry like Alex Haley did. ......Does anyone know what were the major ports that slaves came in?
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ROOTS (the TV miniseries) came out in 1977 and I was 7 years old at the time. I remember the part where the slave traders kidnap Kunte Kinte (LeVar Burton, aka "Geordie Laforge" from Star Trek). I was
terrified when that part happened.
I watched ROOTS again at about age 29 (rented and watched all 6 tapes over 2 nights) and to watch it with "grown up eyes", the kidnap scene is still very upsetting and disturbing (but obviously realistic). It's an excellent series - now I plan to read the book, too.
As more major ports, you could probably research this through American history books, etc. I know in Amistad (the movie), they arrived in Connecticut.
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