The Resource Roots : the saga of an American family, Alex Haley
Roots : the saga of an American family, Alex Haley
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The item Roots : the saga of an American family, Alex Haley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"-Kunta Kinte-as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people-slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher-and one acclaimed author-who descended from Kunta Kinte
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (30hr., 05 min.))
- Isbn
- 9781482962062
- Label
- Roots : the saga of an American family
- Title
- Roots
- Title remainder
- the saga of an American family
- Statement of responsibility
- Alex Haley
- Subject
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- trueRace relations
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- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"-Kunta Kinte-as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people-slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher-and one acclaimed author-who descended from Kunta Kinte
- Summary
- WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Tracing his ancestry through six generations, slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects, back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
- Award
- Audies: Non-Fiction, 2008.
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- Haley, Alex
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- 929.20973
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- 1330
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- Narrated by Avery Brooks ; special introduction by Michael Eric Dyson
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- African Americans
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- Roots : the saga of an American family, Alex Haley
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- Unabridged.
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- 1 online resource (1 audio file (30hr., 05 min.))
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- Label
- Roots : the saga of an American family, Alex Haley
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- MWT11052044
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-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (30hr., 05 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781482962062
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- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
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- not applicable
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- unknown
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- MWT11052044
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- not applicable
Subject
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- true18th century -- 1701 -- 1800
- true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
- trueAfrica
- trueAfrican American families
- trueAfrican American families -- Biography
- trueAfrican American fiction
- trueAfrican American men
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- trueAfrican Americans -- Identity
- trueBooks to TV
- Downloadable audiobooks
- trueFamilies -- History
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- trueGambia
- trueHaley family
- trueHaley, Alex
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueKinte family
- trueModern classics
- trueRace relations
- trueSlavery
- trueVirginia
Genre
- trueAfrican American fiction
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- Downloadable audiobooks
- trueFamily sagas
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueModern classics
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