# Roots

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- Book: [Roots](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-haley/roots) ([Roots.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-haley/roots.md))
- Authors: [Alex Haley](https://www.bookquiver.com/alex-haley)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-338-7
- Pages: 912
- Published: 2018-09-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Discover Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers, freedmen and slaves, Alex Haley’s research took him back to Africa and a sixteen-year-old youth named Kunta Kinte. Torn from his homeland and brought to the slave markets of the New World, re-imagining Kunta’s journey would allow Haley to explore his family’s deep and distant past. ‘A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, Roots not only inspired a generation of black activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience’ Observer WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA, AUTHOR OF BLACK AND BRITISH