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Can someone tell me alex haley family tree?

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only the african part not the whole family tree

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  1. Haley only identified one African ancestor in full, Kunta Kinte. The rest of Haley's research was focused on his slave ancestors, who were Kinte's descendents. Here's a full story of Kunta Kinte from Haley's foundation: http://www.kintehaley.org/rootskintebio....

    Here's the tree with all of his identified ancestors: http://www.ststlocations.com/Archives/Ge...


  2. Some critics say Haley was a much better novelist than he was genealogist/historian and dispute the story of his proven connection to the Kinte clan.  (This is actually addressed in a new preface to ROOTS written after he died;  Haley admitted that ROOTS was 90% a work of fiction as, like most of us, all he had for some ancestors was names and figures and so he filled the rest in.)

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