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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 · Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Paperback – May 3, 2016. 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 · 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...
It's an emotional tale of man ripped from his country and his family and brought to America as a slave. I was really drawn to the character of Kunta Kinta and Alex Haley has written an exciting, sometimes tragic, sometimes heartwarming, story of his family ancestors.
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"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...
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...
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...
Jan 1, 2007 · Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte.
- Alex Haley
