What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

A first-generation slave like Kunta Kinte would certainly have welcomed the opportunity to be reunited with friends and family in his home village.

On the other hand many slaves were fourth-generation or more, and knew nothing of Africa at all, except for oral and musical folk traditions.

That, plus seeing how the slaves were taken from many different locations in Africa by huge numbers, returning them all to where they came from would have been a pretty huge operation logistically, especially back then. Furthermore, it might have been tricky, in some cases impossible, to determine exactly where each slave came from. Just asking them would not have done it.