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It commences with a labor and birth in an African town in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable solid of men, women, and children come to life, most of them based on the folks from Alex Haley's own family tree. When Alex was a young man growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to simply tell him reports about their family, reports that went in the past to a man she called the African who was used aboard a slave dispatch destined for Colonial America. As a grown-up, Alex spent twelve years looking for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother possessed told him. Within an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the African - Kunta Kinte - as well as the precise location of the village in Western world Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Root base is based on the reality of his ancestry, and the six years of men and women - slaves and freed men, farmers and solicitors, an architect, a educator, and one acclaimed publisher - descended from Kunta Kinte.
