TY - BOOK AU - Haley, Alex TI - Roots SN - 0440174643 U1 - 813.54 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - Dell Publishing KW - American Literature-Fiction KW - American English Literature N2 - 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 ER -