Literature & Fiction

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

[*Abridged Edition]
[Introduction by Michael Eric Dyson]
[Read by Avery Brooks]

One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots, galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue.

It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. -- When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. -- As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the African --Kunta Kinte-- as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. -- Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people -- slaves and freed men, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher, and one acclaimed author -- descended from Kunta Kinte.

Country	USA
Author	Alex Haley
Binding	Audible Audio Edition
Format	Unabridged
IsAdultProduct
Label	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Manufacturer	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
PublicationDate	2007-08-30
Publisher	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Studio	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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