Roots: The Saga of an American Family

✍ Scribed by Haley, Alex;Haley family.;Kinte family

Publisher: Vanguard Books
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Edition: 30th anniversary ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The author shares the saga of an African American family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.

✦ Subjects

African Americans;African American families;Biographical fiction;Biographies;Nonfiction novels;Biography;Electronic books;Historical fiction;Novels;Haley, Alex;Haley family;Kinte family;African Americans -- Biography

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