Kizzy Kinte didn’t have a chance. The daughter Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s epic book Roots wanted to slip the bonds of slavery and live free, as her ancestors had done in Africa. But she couldn’t. She was born of a slavewoman, Bell Kinte, and in those terrible days of bondage, she was destined to live as a slave. Kizzy’s parentage—over which she had no control—dictated her destiny.
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