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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... began to parch and die . Even the forest's wa- terholes dried up , said Nyo Boto , and first wild fowl , and then the forest's animals , sick from thirst , began to appear at the village well . In crystal - clear skies each night ...
... began to parch and die . Even the forest's wa- terholes dried up , said Nyo Boto , and first wild fowl , and then the forest's animals , sick from thirst , began to appear at the village well . In crystal - clear skies each night ...
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... began to hurt again this third day on the trail - in fact , his whole body seemed to be one dull ache - but he pretended that manhood training had already begun and that he would be the last boy in his kafo to betray his pain . When he ...
... began to hurt again this third day on the trail - in fact , his whole body seemed to be one dull ache - but he pretended that manhood training had already begun and that he would be the last boy in his kafo to betray his pain . When he ...
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... began to lay about among the boys with limber sticks , pummeling their shoulders and back- sides smartly as they herded them like so many goats , a few boys apiece , into the small mud huts . Huddled in their bare hut , Kunta and his ...
... began to lay about among the boys with limber sticks , pummeling their shoulders and back- sides smartly as they herded them like so many goats , a few boys apiece , into the small mud huts . Huddled in their bare hut , Kunta and his ...
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