When Kunte Kinte met the Akan in the woods, they greeted each other with an Arab-Muslim greeting. The origin and highest concentration of Akan people are located in Ghana. Today, Muslims are 16% of the Ghanan population. It is unlikely that an average Akan clan member would have been a Muslim during the time of Kunte Kinte.
The real Juffure, was a large town of around 7,000 people as of the mid-1700's. The series depicts Juffure as having only a few hundred inhabitants and existing as a mud brick village (this would be corrected in Roots (2016)).
Kunte and his father make several references to "The she-goat". There would not be only one she-goat in a herd. It would be more likely that there would be only one he-goat. She-goats provide both milk and baby goats. It only needs one ram to produce the baby goats.
Kunta Kinte briefly wears shoes or sandals at the beginning of the capture scene.
During the infamous capture scene, Kunta stabs and kills one of the men. At the beginning of the scene, when Kunta is struggling and fighting against his chains, the man is lying dead facing one direction. During the montage of the scene, when Kunta is in slow motion struggling and fighting against his chains, the man is now lying dead in the opposite direction.
When Kunta reports he has seen white men during his manhood training, his entire camp acts with shock and fear. In reality, the African population of the Gambia River were well acquainted to seeing whites, since the region was frequently visited by Portuguese traders and missionaries.
When the captain is in the hold with Slater, he is clearly seen lighting Slater's cigar and his own with a match struck on the side of a box - friction matches weren't developed until well into the 19th Century and this scene is set in 1765.
A crewman on the ship transporting Kunta Kinte to America in 1767 plays a concertina.The instrument was invented in 1829, and was first marketed with the familiar hexagonal body in 1843.
During the slave-drive to the ships the topless females have tan lines from their 20th century swimwear.
While in the empty hold of the Lord Ligonier with Mr. Slater, Captain Davies lights a friction match to light two cigars. These were not invented until 1805; the scene was in 1767.
At birth, Kunta's Grandmother (his Mother's midwife) has metal dental work visible on her lower front teeth, which was not available in The Gambia in 1750.
When Kunta Kinte throws a stone at the leopard, its leash rustles in the leaves after the leopard runs off.
Kunta Kinte is shown driving a jaguar away from his goat. Jaguars are only found in Central and South America and not in Africa.