- Iron Woobie: Almost every single slave in Kunta's line, by blood or by marriage, endures the suffering far beyond what any normal human possibly could.
- Values Dissonance: Beyond all the obvious ones in a book rife with slavery, the book spends a fair amount of time glorifying cockfighting.
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