Read the scenario and answer the question below.

Kunta Kinte is a fictional character in the 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, written by American author, Alex Haley, which was adapted into a television series Kunta Kinte was a Black enslaved person, who was kidnapped from his home in the Gambia, Africa, to work as a slave in the cotton fields of the United States of America. During his enslavement, Kunta Kinte unsuccessfully tried to escape four times from slavery.

After being recaptured during the last of his four escape attempts, the slave catchers gave him a choice: he would be castrated or have his right foot cut off. He chose to have his foot cut off, and the men cut off the front half of his right foot.

What did the slave master achieve by cutting off Kunta Kinte’s foot? 

 Choose the phrases below that accurately describe the slave master’s intentions.

Cognitive dissonance

is a personal and individualistic conflict.