Roots: The Saga of an American Family"While Haley created certain unknown details of his family history, ROOTS is definitely based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people - slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, teacher - and one acclaimed author - descended from Kunte Kinte. But with this book, Haley did more than recapture the history of his own family. He popularized genealogy for people of all races and colors."--BOOK JACKET. |
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