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Roots : the saga of an American family

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    Running Time: 15:00 hrs
    Narrator: Avery Brooks
    Publisher:
    Blackstone Audio, 2014
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Haley, Alex
    Contributor: Brooks, Avery; Dyson, Michael Eric
    Edition: Abridged
    Date:
    Created
    2014
    Summary:

    Roots 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.

    Subject(s): African American families | African Americans | Haley family | Haley, Alex | Kinte family
    Original Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon], Blackstone Publishing
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781483002729, 1483002721, 9781483002743, 1483002748