Roots

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 was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of the African Kunta Kinte but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great great great great grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767 Now he has written the monumental two century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects and one author.But Haley has done than recapture the history of his own family As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit. Best Download Roots [ author ] Alex Haley [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr I read this book long, long ago came across it while going through a book list here on Goodreads, and suddenly felt the urge to post a review.Dear Kunta Kinte,We are separated by time, space and culture Throughout your largely tragic life, you would never have imagined that your story would ever be written, let alone read by a bookish teenager in far away India, for whom slavery till that day was only a fact learned from school textbooks, mucked up to pass hated history exams However, Mr Kin I read this book long, long ago came across it while going through a book list here on Goodreads, and suddenly felt the urge to post a review.Dear Kunta Kinte,We are separated by time, space and culture Throughout your largely tragic life, you would never have imagined that your story would ever be written, let alone read by a bookish teenager in far away India, for whom slavery till that day was only a fact learned from school textbooks, mucked up to pass hated history exams However, Mr Kinte, you would be pleased to know that reading your story, penned by your descendant Mr Alex Haley, changed his whole outlook He suffered with you, Mr.Kinte, as you lay chained up in the dark and dank hold of the slaving vessel he felt the searing pain as your fo...Roots, Alex Haley 1979 1357 695 1361 1363 1367 1369 1382 1387 1388 1392 1393 9789643030506 1394 775 9789640018224 20 1366 416 Roots, Alex Haley 1979 1357 695 1361 1363 1367 1369 1382 1387 1388 1392 1393 9789643030506 1394 775 9789640018224 20 1366 416 1387 9786005381061 This book was astonishing to me particularly the narrative of Kunta Kinte s life This is why I read What an amazing description of African culture and the rights of manhood Then, the horrible violation of slavery and the cross cultural experience of an African joining slaves who were predominately born in the United States Sounds silly, but though I ve read many books on slavery, none have dealt with the differences among slaves themselves and how growing up as a slave shaped how African A This book was astonishing to me particularly the narrative of Kunta Kinte s life This is why I read What an amazing description of Afr...Magnificent The epic chronicle of a family through many generations of cruelty, hardship and suffering But it s muchthan that really it s the history of slavery in America What happened to the characters in this book happened to millions of others and it s a story that needed to be told and Alex Haley did a masterful job of telling it Roots should be required reading in high schools because all of us, regardless of age, race, or g...Knjiga, a potom i serija, koje smo mnogo voleli Kako bi bilo lepo kad bi se neko setio evergrin naslova i ponovo objavio ovu knjigu Pre nekoliko godina sam nabavila originalni box set serije pa mogu da u ivam u njoj kad god po elim Makar ne toAlles beginnt in dem kleinen Dorf Juffure in Gambia, aus dem Mitte des 18 Jhd der junge Kunta Kinte von Sklavenj gern gefangen und nach Virginia verschleppt wird.Festgekettet an eine Holzpritsche auf dem Unterdeck erleben die Gefangenen eine grauenvolle, menschenunw rdige berfahrt, die sehr vielen das Leben kostet Die Menschen sterben an allen m glichen Infektionskrankheiten Sie liegen in ihren eigenen Exkrementen Hunger, Durst und Ratten geben Ihnen den Rest.Kunta Kinte berlebt mehr tot Alles beginnt in dem kleinen Dorf Juffure in Gambia, aus dem Mitte des 18 Jhd der junge Kunta Kinte von Sklavenj gern gefangen und nach Virginia verschleppt wird.Festgekettet an eine Holzpritsche au...I honestly can t believe how much I enjoyed this book It s been sitting on my shelf for about half a year now and I ve been wanting to read it as soon as I got it I always just started another book though and always said next time I finally picked it up 6 days ago and finished it about 10 minutes ago The beginning was wonderful I was so enthralled with Africa and Kunta Kinte and his family and the whole works The way they lived, the culture, the traditions, it was like reading of another I honestly can t believe how much I enjoyed this book It s been sitting on m.... 400 400I am at least a fifth generation genealogist I was ten when this book was first published and made into a miniseries But, I was allowed to stay up that entire week of January 23 January 30, 1977 to watch it in its entirety I thought the cast did an excellent job To this day, I still believe that the book was much better than the movie But, as Dr Henry Louis Gates, Jr once pointed out, Most of us feel it s ...I opened the cover of this book with eagerness and excitement In fact, I informed my family I was finally reading Roots and I would be out of commission for the week I was then greeted by 192 pages of some of the dullest prose I have ever encountered Dull and monotonous writing Zero character development The exotic locale of Africa reduced to sand and thorns, with a few cardboard cut outs of Africans standing around.Then, on page 192 out of 900 , conflict finally creates the true beginning I opened the cover of this book with eagerness and excitement In fact, I informed my family I was finally reading Roots and I would be out ...

• English
• 27 July 2017
Alex Haley
• Mass Market Paperback
• 729 pages
• 0440174643
• Alex Haley
• Roots