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After eleven years of research to uncover the facts of his heritage, Haley shares the saga of an American black family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.
Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginat…
This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins …
The twelve writers profiled in this volume are Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel R. Delany, Ernest J. Gaines, Alex Haley, Gayl Jones, Terry McMillan, Clarence Major, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker and John Edgar Wideman. A biographical sketch, a selection of cr…
Sophomore Honors English Reading List - Ms. Lamore.
