Roots
The Saga of an American Family
by Alex Haley
Recommended by Shashi Bellamkonda
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American History, Civil War, and Fiction.
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 ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in American History, Civil War, and Fiction.
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Shashi Bellamkonda
“I was expecting the book "Roots" by Alex Hayley in this list. I read the book in the late 70s in India and had a profound effect reading the horror of how people were kidnapped from their peaceful lives and transported to another country.”
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