Roots by Alex Haley

Roots by Alex Haley

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Alex Haley's account of his 12-year search for his family's origins. Tracing his ancestry back through six generations, he discovered a 16-year-old African, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, torn from his homeland into American slavery, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.

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Roots by Alex Haley

Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family back through the generations, all the way to a man she called "the African". She said he had lived across the ocean and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. The result is this two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumbermill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects - and one author.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780099522003
ISBN 10 0099522004
Titre Roots
Auteur Alex Haley
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Vintage Publishing
Année de publication 1991-01-17
Nombre de pages 688
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