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This is how I heard about the boy, Kunta Kinte.

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And this is how I'll tell you the story.

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The two most important days in a man's life

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are the day he is born

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and the day that he understands why.

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There was once a rich and sophisticated city

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named Juffure

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in a Mandinka kingdom in West Africa.

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It was located on the banks of the Kamby Bolongo,

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the Great River of the Gambia.

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Like the Greeks, Romans, and Hebrews,

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Mandinka kept slaves as servants.

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Some slaves married into these families,

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others paid ransoms to be free.

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Then Europeans arrived in great sailing ships.

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Some Mandinka were corrupted by European guns and gold,

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creating a violent market for slaves.

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But the many Africans who fought European plundering

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suffered brutal reprisals.

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Kunta Kinte's family were warriors loyal to the king.