I had not seen the original series that aired nearly forty years ago so I was curious to check out the new series on the History Channel. It took me a while to get around to catching up on my DVR partly because the series is just so hard to watch. The acts performed in the American south during the time of slavery were inhumanely brutal and so repulsive that this story maintains relevance today. The series does a magnificent job capturing the struggles of generations of African men and women captured and sold into slavery.
The story begins amongst the tribes of Africa following Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) as he trains to be a Mandinka Warrior along with his friend Silla Ba Dibba (Derek Luke). Due to a grudge of other tribesmen that dates back to his father Omoro Kinte (Babs Olusanmokun), Kunta is captured by the rival men and sold to white slaveowners. The period on the boat is one of the most disturbing parts of a sickening story as the men are chained down in the hull of the boat and the women are forced to entertain the men. Kunta does his best to spark and uprising aboard the ship but with weakness and confusion, he is forced to concede defeat.
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The story begins amongst the tribes of Africa following Kunta Kinte (Malachi Kirby) as he trains to be a Mandinka Warrior along with his friend Silla Ba Dibba (Derek Luke). Due to a grudge of other tribesmen that dates back to his father Omoro Kinte (Babs Olusanmokun), Kunta is captured by the rival men and sold to white slaveowners. The period on the boat is one of the most disturbing parts of a sickening story as the men are chained down in the hull of the boat and the women are forced to entertain the men. Kunta does his best to spark and uprising aboard the ship but with weakness and confusion, he is forced to concede defeat.
Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com