Roots: The Saga of an American Family Chapters 66-70 Summary

Kunta is getting the strange feeling that Bell's keeping secrets from him. He decides to give her a taste of her own medicine by not telling her about the news he learns during his travels.
After a few weeks of this, Belle gets the hint and reveals one of her secrets. She pulls out a newspaper and shows him that she knows how to read.
Kunta's irritated by this, but he doesn't realize why for a few weeks. Then it hits him: Belle had acted as if he could not read or write.
That night, he scrawls Arabic characters in the dirt for Bell and points out objects in the room and tells her their names in Mandinka.

Kunta has been spending less time with the fiddler and gardener since he's been married, so he decides to visit them one night.
They talk about the news: rumor is that there are now more black people in the South than white people, which causes the white dudes no shortage of stress. We're crying them a river.
Kunta spends that night ruminating about his past escapes, most notably the fact that he doesn't feel the driving urge to run away anymore.

Bell starts acting odd all of the sudden, but it's not until she places Kunta's hand on her stomach that he realizes why: she's pregnant.
Kunta's excitement is uncontainable. He gets less excited when he hears Bell talking about how Missy Anne has already decided that their child will be her new plaything, however.
Bell goes into labor that September. While riding out the pain, she reveals that she had two children when she was younger, but had been sold away from them.
Finally, Massa Waller tells Kunta to welcome his new baby girl into the world. He immediately begins thinking about what he's going to name her.
Kunta reveals that he has chosen a name, as per Mandinka tradition, but Belle scoffs at him. What kind of crazy name is the guy going to choose, anyway?
Despite this, Kunta performs the Mandinka naming ritual as planned, bringing his daughter out into the night and telling her that her name is Kizzy. This sounds vaguely African to Bell, but not so much that it'll make white people upset. That's a winner.

When Missy Anne, the Massa's niece, sees Kizzy for the first time, she exclaims that she looks like a "doll" (69.1). Kunta's blood boils at this statement, for obvious reasons.
Bell is all for the growing relationship between Anne and Kizzy, however. Soon enough, Anne is coming by twice a week and eating into Kunta's time with his daughter.

Recently, Kunta's been learning about Haiti, where due to a high number of interracial relationships, mixed-race people now own land, causing tension with the white aristocracy. Conditions for slaves are even worse there too, if you can believe it.
Because of this, there have been several slave revolts there, most notably one in 1791…in which the black population took control of the northern half of the island.
This is making American slave-owners nervous. Not to mention the growing number of "'antislavery societies" organized by those dastardly Yankees (70.10).