Haley, Alex

African-American sharecropper Mama Flora, widowed when her husband is murdered by white landowners, has great ambitions for her children, but her dreams do not always come to pass, and with the arrival of the 1960s, she too becomes caught up in the changing world.

The complete Roots anthology which follows the history of the Kinte family.

It begins with a birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations later at the Arkansas funeral of a black professor whose children are a teacher, a Navy architect, an assistant director of the U.S. Information Agency, and an author.

This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.

African-American sharecropper Mama Flora, widowed when her husband is murdered by white landowners, has great ambitions for her children, but her dreams do not always come to pass, and with the arrival of the 1960s, she too becomes caught up in the changing world.

The saga of Haley's father's family, sequel to Roots.

A black American traces his family's origins back to the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767.

A sophomore at Princeton in 1955, southerner Fletcher Randall meets a group of Quaker Friends and eventually becomes involved in the Underground Railroad.