Roots

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Aug 17, 1976
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Alex Haley

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Roots book. Read 3,931 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to ...

Number of Pages: 888

ISBN: 0440174643

ISBN-13: 9780440174646

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Christy Tidwell @christymtidwell · Sep 14, 2014

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Fiction/ Non-Fiction: re-read Alex Haley’s Roots while living in Annapolis, the port Haley’s ancestor was sold as a slave. The novel changed the way I understood historical memory and representing, glossing over, our dark past.

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