1767. The captive Africans revolt on the voyage to America but fail to take the Lord Ligonier despite the deaths of many of the ship's crew. Docking in Annapolis, MD, after a harrowing three-month crossing, Kunta and fellow survivors are put up for auction, and he goes to the Reynolds plantation in Spotsylvania, VA, where he is be-friended by the American-born Fiddler. That friendship is tested when Kunta plans an escape to reunite with Fanta – and pays a terrible price for his defiance.
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