Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel by the American writer and journalist Alex Haley, which came out in 1976 .

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[hide] *1 the story  ==The story[ Edit] == Haley tells in this fictional story about his family, which he claimed to have traced back to the Gambiaan Kunta Kinte who was kidnapped by slave traders in 1767 and was sold as a slave in America to a planter called Waller. ===Kunta Kinte (Toby) and Bell[ Edit] === The first part of the book tells about the birth and youth of the Mandinka Kunta Kinte in Gambia. This part is based on the oral surviving family stories like those in West Africa by griots is told. Kunta is the oldest son of Omoro and Binta. If he is mature he goes in the woods looking for wood to make a drum, and is captured by slave catchers. The crossing to America is described in detail, as research by Haley Haley had the crossing from Africa to America on a cargo boat in which he spent the nights in the hold of the ship to be somewhat idea of the hardships that the slaves passed during the trip.
 * 1.1 Kunta Kinte (Toby) and Bell
 * 1.2 Kizzy
 * 1.3 Chicken George
 * 1.4 Tom Murray
 * 2 Controversy
 * 3 Tv series

Kunta In Annapolis is sold to a planter, John Waller, and gets the slave name ' Toby '. Three times he knows in the unknown land to escape, but is constantly tracked down and caught. If he is caught for the third time by slave hunters chopping them off a part of his foot. Waller then Toby sells to his brother, the doctor William Waller. Toby arranges itself slowly into his fate, which him as pious Muslim hard falls into the pagan America. After several years he married housekeeper Bell and they get a daughter who is called Kizzy. ===Kizzy[ Edit] === Kizzy grows more or less together with the niece of William Waller, Missy Anne. Although Kunta are doing to give his African heritage to Kizzy, Kizzy is much more under the influence of Missy. She learns to read and write, even though that the slaves on the plantation of Waller is strictly prohibited. This will also determine Kizzy's fate: if she falls in love with as a teenager, she writes a pass for her friend, making it to the North hopes to escape. However, he is caught, tortured and killed, and Michael is taken to a slave auction on the spot by Waller. She was sold to Tom Lea, a small planter in North Carolina. Kizzy is repeatedly raped by Lea, and they like a son who at the age of seventeen by Lea ' George ' is called. As a child of mixed descent is George light brown, instead of the deep black color of Kizzy and her father. ===Chicken George<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George is at an early age the minion of Uncle Mingo, who for Tom LEA's fighting cocks makes. George learns the trade of cocks as fast and gradually supplants melker Mingo Chief Assistant to Tom Lea. Lea is second-best to him even with cocks to come out in haag battles against the cocks of other slaves, free blacks and white crackers. George Gets the nickname ' Chicken George '. If he is 18 he knows to convince the slave Tom Lea Ma to buy, where George falls in love with is. George and Mathilda get married, and eight children.

<p lang="en" len="359" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">As Tom Lea in a Cockfight against an English cocks melker everything on the game puts, and lose, is George to compensate with the winner sent to England, where he spent six years will continue. ===Tom Murray<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">George and Mathilda's third son Tom is trained as a blacksmith, and marries slavin Irene, who is half-Indian . Tom and Irene also get eight children. If slavery is abolished, the whole family to Tennessee. Tom and Irenes third daughter Cynthia is the grandmother of writer Alex Haley. ==Controversy<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the publication of the book was Haley unsuccessfully sued for plagiarism, he would have taken over chunks of text almost literally from the book The African by Harold Courlander. After a lawsuit it came to a settlement. A later charge of plagiarism of Margaret Walker was rejected by the Court.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Others noted that Haley not so closely with the truth it would have taken. So the slave Kizzy was born Toby already have died before, whereby the direct oral transmission of family history would not have been possible. Research in the Gambia was also called into question Haleys: the griot that the history of Kunta Kinte in Juffure had been told would be coached by Haley. ==Tv series<span class="mw-editsection" len="342" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="524" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The book was made into a film to two miniseries, Roots and Roots: The Next Generations, which were broadcast in Netherlands.