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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 rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.

The story of the flight made by Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh in 1933, across the Atlantic ocean from Africa to Brazil.