I remember all the fuss over this when I was a boy. Ah, the story of Alex Haley, a modern-day black person having traced his roots to his African slave ancestors! And the saga being told in Haley's 1976 book which in turn would be made into a TV miniseries, some of which I watched. I only saw part of it, but I would find out years later that the whole thing was just a fiction and ripped off from a book titled "The African", a book by a white author who covered various cultures throughout his career, and who sued Haley for plagiarism, with a settlement out of court. The story of Haley going to Africa and finding his ancestral village there also would turn out to be a fraud. Kunta Kinte was not even a real person.
Even what I saw of the TV series turned out to be false. White people did not go deep into Africa to capture slaves; they did not have to. There was already a developed network from millennia ago which sold slaves to Arabs; it was well in existence long before the first white customers, who could simply go to the coast of Africa and buy the slaves they wanted.
"Dances With Wolves" and "The Autobiography Of Sarah Jane Pittman" at least admitted to being fiction. Unfortunately, this pretends to be reality. If there is a realistic depiction of the African slave trade, I would like to see that.
Even what I saw of the TV series turned out to be false. White people did not go deep into Africa to capture slaves; they did not have to. There was already a developed network from millennia ago which sold slaves to Arabs; it was well in existence long before the first white customers, who could simply go to the coast of Africa and buy the slaves they wanted.
"Dances With Wolves" and "The Autobiography Of Sarah Jane Pittman" at least admitted to being fiction. Unfortunately, this pretends to be reality. If there is a realistic depiction of the African slave trade, I would like to see that.