An edition of Roots (1861)

Roots

The Saga of an American Family

30th Anniversary Edition
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An edition of Roots (1861)

Roots

The Saga of an American Family

30th Anniversary Edition
  • 4.5 (13 ratings) ·
  • 280 Want to read
  • 21 Currently reading
  • 21 Have read

Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list’s top spot. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.

The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.

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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
Pages
903

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Cover of: Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
2007, Vanguard Press
in English - 30th Anniversary Edition
Cover of: Roots
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
May 22, 2007, Vanguard Press
Paperback in English - Anv edition
Cover of: Roots
Roots: the saga of an American family : the 30th anniversary edition
2007, Vanguard Books
in English
Cover of: Roots
Roots: the saga of an American family
2000, Gramercy Books
in English
Cover of: Roots
Roots
1991, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Roots
Roots
1979, G. K. Hall
in English
Cover of: Racines
Racines
1979, Éditions J'ai lu
in French
Cover of: Racines
Racines
1977, Laffont Canada, Edition Speciale Robert Laffont
in French
Cover of: Roots
Roots
1976, Doubleday
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Roots
Roots
1976, Dell
in English

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Open Library
OL37061310M
Internet Archive
roots30thanniver0000hale
ISBN 10
0739483188, 0739483183
ISBN 13
9780739483183
OCLC/WorldCat
1043434022

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"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."

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