Roots: The Saga of an American Family Chapters 41-45 Summary

On the seventh day, the toubob pull two men out of the room. Kunta can hear the roar of a crowd and a man talking quickly. We assume they're being auctioned off.
Kunta is sold for eight-hundred-and-fifty dollars. The buyer, a toubob, sends a black man over to grab Kunta.
The man pulls Kunta in a cart and the toubob sits beside him. Eventually, they reach a farm worked by a group of black workers with "criss-crossed" scars on their backs (41.19).

They reach a large house and the mysterious black man pulls Kunta out of the cart. Kunta sees more of his fellow Africans around and wonders why they aren't helping him escape.
Kunta is chained to a pole and given food and water. He drinks the water, but doesn't touch the food.
They get back into the cart the next morning. Kunta sees a whole bunch of things he's never seen before, like a group of Native Americans strolling beside the road.
Finally, they pull off on a side road. There's another big house in the distance, this one surrounded by a bunch of small huts. They stop.
The toubob leaves, so Kunta takes the opportunity to bash "the black one" over the head (42.22). He unchains himself and rushes joyfully into the forest.

Kunta has been running through the night—it's almost dawn. His body is scraped and bruised from hustling through the dense forest.
Suddenly, he hears dogs barking in the distance. Oh no. Kunta tries to move faster, but it isn't long before the dogs are right behind them.
Kunta sees the guy he beat over the head, and dude looks ticked. The man calls off the dogs, but gives Kunta a hard clock to the face.
Kunta wakes up "lying spread-eagled on his back in some kind of hut," chained up (43.12). He's given food daily, but still refuses to eat.

Kunta remains in the hut for "four days and three nights" (44.1). To keep himself sane, he thanks Allah each day for the new sun.
On the fifth day, "the black one" brings Kunta outside, still chained.
He's trying to tell Kunta something, but Kunta doesn't understand. Oh wait—he's trying to tell him that the toubob has given him a new name. It's Toby.
The "black one" has a name too—it's Sampson. Kunta has to restrain himself for smacking the dude for even suggesting that he should let go of his ancestral legacy.
Sampson shows Kunta around the plantation, using some pro-level mime work to communicate despite the language gap.
Kunta sees a toubob whipping the black workers in the field if they slow down for so much as a second.
Kunta has an agonizing night in his hut, wondering if there was some way he could have avoided this fate, and bemoaning the fact that he will never see his family again.

Kunta's forced to wear a metal bar locking his ankles, so he can't run again. Yet. He's already planning for his next escape attempt, however
The owner of the plantation is known as the "massa," while the man who watches the slaves while they work is known as the "oberseer" (45.9).
As much as Kunta hates the toubob, however, he seems more frustrated with his own people. He can't believe how far they've strayed from their roots, and how willingly they've accepted their fate.
Still—when in (a hellishly messed up version of) Rome. Kunta has decided to learn the dreaded toubob language so he can have a better chance of making it out of here alive.