[Roots] symbolizes the connection of black Americans—and, by association, all Americans—to Africa itself. Roots is part of the growing body of literature helping to rediscover the heritage of black Americans which has been outlawed, ignored, or forgotten over the generations. (p. xliii)
As literature the work has faults, but none which over-shadow the rightness of its general conception or the triumph of Haley's imagination.
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