Roots...a family saga for Negroes in America

The novel discusses an era in the history of Negroes, the era of the slave trade that led ships from the jungles of Africa towards the sugar cane plantations and fields in Europe and America in the dirtiest trade the world has ever seen. After his great-grandfather, Kunta Kinta, set foot on the coast of America in 1776 AD, as a slave, he was hunted by the whites in his native Africa, just as anima...