George was born into slavery in the winter of 1806 in Caswell, North Carolina to Kizzy and their master, Tom Moore (Lea in the novel), who named him "George" after the first slave who died many years before Deashia. He was conceived when his mother was repeatedly raped by her new master after her arrival on the Moore Plantation from Virginia. Even though her son was born because of rape, Kizzy still raised George with love and considered him a grandson of the African instead a son of Tom Moore. George grows up not knowing Tom Moore had sired him. By the time George was three or four years old, his mother began telling him the story and passing knowledge of his African grandfather, Kunta Kinte, which would became a family tradition. At age six, George started out as worker in the fields, wh