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Roots, Episode 5: The Escape

Dramatizes Kunta's determination as he makes one more try for freedom, this time during a harvest celebration. Pictures his capture by sadistic professional slavecatchers who beat him and chop off half his foot to prevent further escape attempts. Follows his removal to Dr. William Reynolds' plantation in payment of John Reynolds' debt, where Kunta recovers and vows not only to walk again, but to run.

More in Roots Series

  1. Roots, Episode 10: The War 1977
  2. Roots, Episode 11: Freedom, Part 1 1977
  3. Roots, Episode 12: Freedom, Part 2 1977
  4. Roots, Episode 1: The African, Part 1 1977
  5. Roots, Episode 2: The African, Part 2 1977
  6. Roots, Episode 3: The Slave, Part 1 1977
  7. Roots, Episode 4: The Slave, Part 2 1977
  8. Roots, Episode 5: The Escape 1977
  9. Roots, Episode 6: The Choice 1977
  10. Roots, Episode 7: Uprooted 1977
  11. Roots, Episode 8: Chicken George, Part 1 1977
  12. Roots, Episode 9: Chicken George, Part 2 1977

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record

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