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Roots : the saga of an American family
Title:
Roots : the saga of an American family
Author:
ISBN:
9781593154493

9780306824852
Edition:
30th anniversary ed.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Vanguard Books, c2007.
Physical Description:
xi, 899 p. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976.
Reading Level:
1330 L Lexile
Summary:
Alex Haley traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunte Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. He follows the struggle for freedom that began with the boy's abduction to America and continued throughout the generations that followed.

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.
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