Roots / Alex Haley.

By:

Haley, Alex [author.]

Analytics: Show analyticsGarden City, New York : Doubleday, [1976] 1976Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 688 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0385037872
9780385037877
9780306824852
9781593154493
9780440174646
0440174643
1593154496
030682485X
0330253018
9780330253017
9780099362814
0091296803
9780091296803
0099362813

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Roots.DDC classification:

929/.2/0973

LOC classification:

PS3558.A3575 R66 1976
E185.97.H24 A33 1976

NLM classification:

E 185.97 H168r 1976

Other classification:

18.06
59

Online resources:

Awards:

Lillian Smith Book Award, 1977

Summary: 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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Books	OCLC Data	Daphne Douglas Reading Room		Available		0000000002868

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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.