Terrence Williams: “You go to Africa, I’ll be here with my white friends”
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Yeah Sowell points this out in the chapter about the real history of slavery, I believe. The book Roots is (as was the intent of the author) a myth with only one foot in historical fact. So yes, many black Americans (and whites as well) DO believe that, just as the book shows, white slavers went inland to hunt for slaves rather than buying them at markets as was the world standard at the time.
Even Roots-the-miniseries does it better, false fraud that it is. You can CLEARLY see a bunch of rival tribal Dindus stalk Kunta Kinte in the bush before they gang up on him. He manages to kill like one of them before they manage to bring him to ground and shackle him, before they then march overland to sell him to the ship's crew.
Which is one of the reasons why in spite of being based on a great big bunch of lies, Roots is at least halfway plausible as historical fiction and somewhat entertaining.