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The Meaning of 'Roots' at 50

Summary by Time Magazine
Anne Haley and her uncle Alex Haley as he signs copies of RootsTwo days before my 39th birthday, I sat in a small boat making its way up a deep river lined with rooty mangrove trees. Though I had never been to this place, it felt hauntingly familiar, like an unlived memory. This was the River Gambia, and it was taking me to the village of Juffure. It was February 2001. Three years earlier, President Bill Clinton had appointed my father, George W…

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