Season 1 · Episode 1

Part 1

• Release date
• May 30, 2016
• Runtime
• 90 min
• TMDB score
• 3.6

In the river region of The Gambia in 1750, Omoro Kinte and his wife, Binta, give birth to a son, Kunta. Kunta is kidnapped in 1767 and sold to British slave traders. After arriving in Maryland, Virginia planter John Waller purchases Kunta.