Kunta Kinte, of course, realizes he is on a completely different farm. Kunta marvels at the differences between the two. This new place is in much better condition. Even the slave cabins are whitewashed and in good repair. Some of the slaves even have their own vegetable and flower gardens. Kunta has some furniture in his simple cabin as well as a fork, knife, and spoon. Kunta can’t believe the stupidity of the new “massa” for allowing Kunta to have these things.

Kunta still avoids any contact with the other slaves on the plantation. He waits to go to the outhouse until all the others have gone to the fields. Bell no longer visits his cabin now either. Kunta eventually has to visit the cooking hut himself and is surprised that Bell isn’t the cook. Instead, Kunta sees Bell coming in and out of the big white house.

Kunta considers these black slaves on the new farm. They do have it a little bit better than the ones from his previous experience; however, they still have no “respect or appreciation” of where they come from. Kunta spends sleepless nights “burning with fury at the misery of his people.” Kunta again vows to never be like these blacks who do not know who they are; therefore, he is ashamed to find himself in need of love and companionship.

One day, Kunta sees one of the slaves exit the buggy with a white cast on his arm and an “oddly shaped dark box” in his hand. Kunta is disgusted by this man’s brown skin (as opposed to black skin) because he knows this slave is the product of a white man raping a black woman. However, he notices that all of the slaves gather into this man’s hut after dinner. Kunta wonders why.

Kunta is so curious, in fact, that he approaches the hut of this man who at first just calls Kunta an “African” and shoos him away. Kunta spends days imagining the insults he would like to throw at this “brown” man; however, Kunta does not have the toubob words to throw insults properly. Finally, the brown man corners Kunta one day as he comes out of the outhouse and begins talking (nonstop) to Kunta. The brown man’s name is “Fiddler.”

Fiddler never stops talking. He tells Kunta that he is lucky that no one killed him. He actually lists all of the white man’s laws for Kunta, including the law that allows a master to kill a slave who has run away and been caught. Even though Kunta cannot completely understand everything yet, Fiddler does tell Kunta that drums, in fact, are against the law as well.

Because of Fiddler’s constant talking, Kunta begins to learn the toubob language. Kunta finds himself both happy and disgusted to know someone who actually wanted to talk with him. Fiddler, trying to make Kunta feel a bit better about his right foot, lists the kinds of horrible beatings he has seen: men who have lost their private parts, pregnant women beaten to a pulp, black people hung from trees until dead, and so on. Kunta is finally invited to Fiddler’s hut after dinner and hears stories that he only somewhat understands. All the other blacks are surprised to see Kunta there. In fact, the only one who nods in amusement is Bell.

Kunta is not happy with himself for wanting to go to these after-dinner story sessions. Kunta goes because of a lesson Omoro taught him back in Juffare. One day, Kunta would not release a mango that Lamin wanted to taste,...