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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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Blacks, History, African American families, African Americans, Afro-Americans, Alex Haley, Biography, Family, Haley family, Kinte family, Kinte family., Noirs américains, Biographies, Gambia, Africa, Fiction, Familia Haley, Historical fiction, Familia Kinte, African American, Families, Family Reunions, Genealogy, Plantation life, Slavery, African Continental Ancestry Group, African americans, biography, Haley, alex, 1921-1992, Large type books, Race identity, National Black Family Month, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Linguistic analysis (linguistics), Linguistics, research, Computational linguistics, Religion, Orphans, Church growth, Kinte (Famille), Haley (Famille), Noirs amr icains, Haley, Alex,People
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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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