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The author shares the saga of an African American family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.
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...
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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...
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Celebrations of escape and revolt: William Wells Brown's Clotel and Arna Bontemps's Black thunder -- Female paradigms in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces -- A necessary ambivalence: Sutton Grigg's Imperium in imperio and Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition -- Visions of transcendence in W.E.B. Du Bois's The quest of the silver fleece and William Attaway's Blood on the forge -- Retreat into the self: Ralph...
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