Roots /Alex Haley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, New York : Doubleday and Company, (c)1976.Description: viii, 688 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E185 .R668 1976
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Awards:
  • Lillian Smith Book Award, 1977
Subject: 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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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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Lillian Smith Book Award, 1977

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