UNITED STATES – JANUARY 29: ROOTS – Sunday, Jan. 23-Sunday. Jan. 30, 1977, The 12-hour ABC Novel for Television “Roots", which aired for eight consecutive nights, remains one of TV’s landmark programs. Based on Alex Haley’s best-selling novel, “Roots" followed 100 tumultuous years and several generations of the author’s African ancestors, from the arrival of Kunta Kinte, the West African youth kidnapped into slavery and shipped to America, through emancipation after the Civil War., Pictured: Georg Stanford Brown (as Tom Harvey), Ben Vereen (as Chicken George) (Jan. 29)., (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images)
「ルーツ」で闘鶏師チキン・ジョージを演じたベン・ベリーン(右)
ベリーンはオプラ・ウィンフリーの番組「Oprah: Where Are They Now(原題)」で、主人公クンタ・キンテの名前が付けられた島を彼が訪ねた時のことを語った。
James Island / Kunta Kinteh island, The Gambia: jetty and crumbling walls of Fort James, its foundations eroded by the river Gambia – a UNESCO world heritage site, occupied by the Portuguese in 1456. In 1651 the Duchy of Courland, in modern Latvia, built a fortress, Fort James, formerly Jacob Fort after Jacob Kettler, the Duke of Courland – it became famous after Alex Haley’s book “Roots" for its later role in the triangular slave trade – photo by M.Torres
① A Short History of Black Americans(B5で10枚)、② Rootsのtranscription sheet(A4表裏、次回観てもらう予定、音声ファイルmp3を三参考ファイルに置くんでダウンロードしてやりや。)、③ Go Down, Moses~,The Battle Hymn of the Republic(B4表裏2、勘違いしてThe Battle Hymn~を重複しました)、④トーイックについて(B4表裏、前期授業で会わなかった人に)