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Roots
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4 out of 5
Based on 33,077 Ratings and 1,497 Reviews

Book Description
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the new world, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
Book Information
PublisherVintage Books
BindingPaperback (45 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages704
ISBN-100099362813
ISBN-13978-0099362814
Publication Date01/01/1994
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About Alex Haley (Author) : Alex Haley is a published author and an editor of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Alex Haley include Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
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