Roots: The Saga of an American Family - Alex Haley Audiobook
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Written by Alex Haley
Format: MP3
When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley’s grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called “the African.” She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the “Kamby Bolongo” and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.
Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of “the African”–Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.
Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.
But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.
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This post has 10 comments with rating of 5/5
March 20th, 2014
katesky, the book’s you’re uploading are NOT classics!!!! Upload them to another section.
August 16th, 2014
i want these files but i can’t download them!
September 16th, 2014
I can’t download this book either.
April 10th, 2015
Hi, this book is not downloading
April 17th, 2016
Will someone please seed? To those above, there is nothing wrong with the torrent, it just has no seeds. Thanks.
August 21st, 2017
Please seed. Stuck at 96.2%. Thank you.
September 7th, 2017
seems strange….its said >50 seeders for a week now and I have still not been able to connect up?
anyone else had trouble downloading even when there are seeders??
September 7th, 2017
huh?…..all of a sudden it downloaded and got stuck like a previous person at 96.2%.
I guess I will take what I can get on this one…
many thanks to the seeders though It is appreciated when people seed
(I tend to consider seed for approx 5x the length of time to download is reasonable)
June 2nd, 2025
James, I know it’s 11 years later, bu goddam….why don’t you STFU and MYOB.
February 27th, 2026
will you please seed? I’m stuck at 82%
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