Ebook {Epub PDF} Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley

 · A saga of African-American life, based on Alex Haley's family history. Kunta Kinte is abducted from his African village, sold into slavery, and taken to America. He makes several escape attempts until he is finally caught and maimed. He marries Bell, his plantation's cook, and they have a daughter, Kizzy, who is eventually sold away from them/10(K).  · Roots is, in Alex Haley’s words, a “novelized amalgam” of documented historical and fictionalized events. Haley’s artistic intent, that his family’s narrative should serve as a symbolic. — Alex Haley. As “the father of popular genealogy,” his timeless novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, illuminates and humanizes America’s era of slavery and ultimately reflects the personal mantra visible in all his work: “In my writing, as much .

Title: Roots: The Saga of an American Family By: Alex Haley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Vendor: Da Capo Press Publication Date: Dimensions: X (inches) Weight: 2 pounds ISBN: X ISBN Stock No: WW Roots: The Gift. Roots: The Saga of An American Family traced a black family from Africa to America and was based, Mr. Haley said, on his own ancestors, whose history and background he researched for many years. Roots: The Next Generations was the sequel that began shortly after the end of the Civil War, up to the s when Alex Haley was. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Roots.: Alex Haley. Hachette Books, May 3, - History - pages. 2 Reviews. Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events.

Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in Roots tells the story of Kunta Kinte—a young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slave—and seven generations of his descendants in the United States. When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family - stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he when set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte's family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning years.