Roots: The Saga of an American Family; Library Edition
It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley s own family tree.
When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the African Kunta Kinte as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. "Roots "is based on the facts of his ancestry and the six generations of people slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher, and one acclaimed author who descended from Kunta Kinte."
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About the Author:
Alex Haley (1921 1992)" "is the author of "Roots", one of the most celebrated novels of the 1970s. He spent twenty years in the Coast Guard until beginning his writing career working for a range of magazines before becoming a ghostwriter for his first major book, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Haley spent years tracing his own family history and decided it went back to a single African man, Kunta Kinte, who was captured in Gambia and taken to the United States as a slave. That research led to Haley s epic book "Roots", published in 1976 to wide acclaim. Haley is credited with inspiring interest in genealogy among African Americans.
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- ISBN 10 1481511238
- ISBN 13 9781481511230
- BindingAudio CD
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