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Title Statement | Roots: the saga of an American family / Alex Haley ; with a special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson and Alex Haley on the writing of Roots. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Saga of an American family |
Author | Haley, Alex |
Publication | Boston, MA: Da Capo Press,[2014]©2004 |
Edition | First Da Capo Press edition, Miniseries tie-in edition. |
Extent of Item | xi, 899 pages ; |
ISBN | 030682485X (pbk.) 9780306824852 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2824005 |
General Notes | "A condensed version of a portion of this work first appeared in Reader's Digest"--Title page verso. "Now a major History event series"--Cover. |
Summary | This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | African Americans--Biography |
African American families--Biography | |
Slavery--History--United States | |
By Name | Haley, Alex |
Haley, Alex--Family | |
Haley family | |
Kinte family |