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Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel written by Alex Haley. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, sold into slavery in Africa, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley.
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African."
May 3, 2016 · Every American, regardless of their race, has roots from somewhere else. Every American, regardless of their roots, has a heart, a soul, a dream, a need. Every American loves, hopes, laughs, cries, hurts and suffers in their own way.
- Alex Haley
Roots, a novel by Alex Haley, was published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley.
May 3, 2016 · Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the...
Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.
- Alex Haley
May 3, 2016 · Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Alex Haley. Doubleday, May 3, 2016 - History - 912 pages. #1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reissued to coincide with...
"While Haley created certain unknown details of his family history, ROOTS is definitely based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people - slaves and freedmen, farmers and...
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley - Books on Google Play. Alex Haley (1921-1992) was a bestselling and award-winning writer whose works, including Roots and The...
May 3, 2016 · Roots: The Saga of an American Family Paperback – May 3 2016. by Alex Haley (Author) 4.7 3,038 ratings. See all formats and editions. Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.
- Alex Haley
