When Tom Lea loses all his money in a cockfight, he sends Chicken George to Europe for several years to pay off the debt, and he sells most of the rest of the family to the Murrays. He marries Matilda and they have six sons and two daughters, including Tom, who becomes a very good blacksmith. He is a philanderer known for expensive taste and alcohol, as much as for his iconic bowler hat and green scarf. He rapes and impregnates her, and she gives birth to George, who will later be known as Chicken George when he becomes his master (and father's) cockfighting trainer. Kizzy is bought by Tom Lea, a farmer and chicken fighter who rose from poor beginnings. Yet her life changes when she forges a traveling pass for her beau Noah, a field hand when he is caught and confesses, she is sold away from her family at the age of 16. She is close friends with John Waller's daughter Anne, and she rarely experiences cruelty. Kizzy's childhood as a slave is as happy as her parents can make it. He marries Bell, a slave in 'the big house', and together they have a daughter, Kizzy. He becomes a gardener and eventually his master's buggy driver.
Kunta is then bought by his master's brother, William Waller.
Kunta tries to run away four times, and after the fourth attempt part of his right foot is cut off. After a nightmarish journey across the Atlantic, he is sold in Annapolis to John Waller. One morning when he is cutting wood to make a drum, he is captured. Yet Kunta is surrounded by love and traditions. His village subsists on farming, and sometimes they do not have enough food, as the climate is harsh. Kunta has a typically difficult but free childhood in his village, Juffure. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte - a young man taken from The Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave - and seven generations of his descendants in the United States.
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