Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a 1976 novel by Alex Haley that traces the life of Kunta Kinte, an eighteenth century Mandinka man captured as an adolescent and transported to North America, and follows his descendants down to Haley himself. The novel spent forty six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, including twenty two weeks at number one, and its final seven chapters were later adapted into the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations in 1979, following the original 1977 television adaptation of the full novel. The book stimulated wide public interest in African American genealogy and contributed to a broader appreciation of African American history. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/