Kunta Kinte Research Paper

In the spring, of 1750the village of Juffure a boy was born to Omoro and his wife Binta Kinte. Eight days later the naming ceremony happened. The boy child was named by his father and became known as Kunta Kinte. The night Omoro took his sin out in the dark and held him high saying “behold the only thing greater then yourself.” When Kunta was a small boy he would go to the hut of his Grandma Yaisa and she would tell him wonderful stories. One sad day his Grandma Yaisa died. Kunta’s training at home by his mother Binta was hard. One year later Kunta and his friends were the village lookouts (warning the villagers of any stranger’s coming.) when Kunta became a second kafo he and his friends were given the job of herding and keeping safe the

Kizzy met another slave being 16 who was called Miss Malizy. Kizzy told her she was from Spotsylvania Virginia. Miss Malizy told her she was now in Caswell County North Carolina. Kizzy became pregnant and gave birth to a son and named him George. As George started growing up, Kizzy told him all about his African family (Kunta Kinte, Ko-fiddle, and the Kamby Bolongo the big river in Africa.) When George was six he began to work in the fields. When he got older, another slave Mingo taught George how to take care of Maser Tom’s chickens he used in cock fighting. When Mingo got to old the job of taking care and training the chickens to fight went to George. George got a new nickname “Chicken George “. George did not know that Maser Tom was his father. Chicken George fell in love with a black slave named Matilda. August 1827 George and Matilda jumped the broom and were married. Their first born was a son named Virgil (Matilda’s fathers’ name) In Jan. 1831 Matilda gave birth to another son and named him George. Tension grew and rumors flew that many blacks were raiding white plantations and killing the white people. Missis Lea slept with a shot gun and threatened to kill all the blacks. Another son was born to Chicken George and Matilda and they named him Tom. Old Mingo got sick and died. In 1836 George heard about a place called the Alamo and about a white man named Davey Crocket (Friend to the Indians) who had died there. George heard about the fight lost by the Mexican General Santa