- Blacks, History, African American families, African Americans
Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and 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.
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Grave, earnest, epic and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Alex Haley
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 688
- Publisher
- ALTA., Sound Library, Doubleday & Co.,
- Editions
- 63
- Language
- Japanese, German, French, und
- ISBN
- 9780330253017
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“Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.”
American writer and author of the popular 1970s book *Roots* which was adapted into a record setting TV mini-series. "The giving and getting, the sense of belonging and contributing to something larger than yourself, to something that began before you were born and will go on after you die, can make it possible for you to accept life in a way that makes you wish the whole world could realize how easy it is to feel as you do, and wonder why they don’t. That’s what having roots—and writing Roots—has done for me. I pray that reading it—and then reaching out for their families to join in a search of their own—will do the same for everyone." ~ Alex Haley (A Candid Conversation With Murray Fisher,
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