Alex Haley’s book Roots (1976) is based in part on his family history. The book combines history and fiction to chronicle the experiences of Haley’s ancestors from 18th-century Africa to 20th-century America. Haley drew upon his family’s oral tradition to embark on years of intensive research, tracing his family’s lineage to Kunta Kinte, an ancestor from The Gambia who was enslaved and brought to America in 1767.
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