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* FreudianThreat: Kunta Kinte--after being caught attempting to escape from slavery for a fourth time-- given a SadisticChoice by his master: have his foot chopped off, or be castrated. He chooses the foot (as being castrated would mean he'd be unable to father children) and the master has [[Amputative Sentencing half of his right foot removed]].
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* FreudianThreat: Kunta Kinte--after being caught attempting to escape from slavery for a fourth time-- given a SadisticChoice by his master: have his foot chopped off, or be castrated. He chooses the foot (as being castrated would mean he'd be unable to father children) and the master has [[Amputative Sentencing [[AmputativeSentencing half of his right foot removed]].
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* FreudianThreat: Kunta Kinte--after being caught attempting to escape from slavery for a fourth time-- given a SadisticChoice by his master: have his foot chopped off, or be castrated. He chooses the foot (as being castrated would mean he'd be unable to father children) and the master has [[Amputative Sentencing half of his right foot removed]].
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* SadisticChoice: Kunta is told he has to lose a body part after his fourth escape attempt. The master makes him choose between his foot, or his penis. He chooses the foot because without a penis, he can't father children.
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* AmputativeSentencing: When Kunta is captured during his fourth and final escape attempt, the slave catchers who nab him offer him a SadisticChoice: either lose your foot, or be castrated. He chooses his foot, as a man with no ''fotoo'' can father no children and is therefore no man at all.
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* SadisticChoice: When Kunta is captured during his fourth and final escape attempt, the slave catchers who nab him offer him a simple choice: either lose your foot, or be castrated. He chooses his foot, as a man with no ''fotoo'' can father no children and is therefore no man at all.
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* TokenEnemyMinority: George Johnson, the only white man who is a genuine friend to Haley's ancestors.
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** The audiobook version is read by Avery Brooks. There is no way in hell that a white person could have narrated the book without it being beyond cringeworthy.
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** The audiobook version is read by Avery Brooks.Creator/AveryBrooks. There is no way in hell that a white person could have narrated the book without it being beyond cringeworthy.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Kizzy's date of birth is explicitly stated to be September 12, 1790. She is around 16 when her son Chicken George is born, placing his birth around 1806. However, less than a year after Emancipation, which took place in 1865, Chicken George is stated to be sixty-seven when he should only be fifty-nine.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Kizzy's date of birth is explicitly stated to be September 12, 1790. She is around 16 when her son Chicken George is born, placing his birth around 1806. However, less than a year after Emancipation, which took place in 1865, Chicken George is stated to be sixty-seven 67 when he should only be fifty-nine.59.
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* AdultFear: Time and again, the fear of family members being taken away, never to be seen again, is the ultimate horror. Kunta was stolen from his family, and then his own daughter Kizzy was sold away from him. Kizzy's grandchildren and all their families were sold away from her, her son was forcibly shipped off to England, and she never saw any of them ever again before her death. Chicken George almost suffered this fate during his stint in England -- his family was sold away from him, but on his return he managed to get Tom Lea drunk enough to spill the beans as to their current whereabouts, and found the freedom papers Lea had written out for him before getting shipped off.
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* InvasionOfTheBabySnatchers: Time and again, the fear of family members being taken away, never to be seen again, is the ultimate horror. Kunta was stolen from his family, and then his own daughter Kizzy was sold away from him. Kizzy's grandchildren and all their families were sold away from her, her son was forcibly shipped off to England, and she never saw any of them ever again before her death. Chicken George almost suffered this fate during his stint in England -- his family was sold away from him, but on his return he managed to get Tom Lea drunk enough to spill the beans as to their current whereabouts, and found the freedom papers Lea had written out for him before getting shipped off.
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* WritersCannotDoMath: Kizzy's date of birth is explicitly stated to be September 12, 1790. She is around 16 when her son Chicken George is born, placing his birth around 1806. However, less than a year after Emancipation, which took place in 1865, Chicken George is stated to be sixty-seven when he should only be fifty-nine.
