Book· 1976· Historical

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

by Alex Haley

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Roots

TV Series · 1977

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Adapted within a year of publication and broadcast over eight consecutive nights, which was new, and watched by a larger share of American households than anything before it. The miniseries is the reason the book's account of a family traced back to Kunta Kinte entered general knowledge.

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Roots: The Saga of an American Family

It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century Mandinka, captured as an adolescent, and transported to North America. It explores his life and those of his descendants in the United States, down to Haley. The novel was adapted as a television miniseries, Roots (1977). The novel spent forty-six weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including twenty-two weeks at number one.

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