"Roots" By Alex Haley report by aLex Cruz

Roots is a book that was written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It is a story about the struggle of an african slave. It first starts with the birth of a boy in 1750. He is born in Juffure an african village. He is named Kunta Kinte and the stor goes on to show how he grew up in a Muslim African village. Suddenly, he is captured by slavers and is sold to an American plantation. At the plantation he meets his soon to be wife Bell and he has to accept that he is a slave and that someone owns him. He struggles within himself to escape and become a free man or stay and remain a slave. Kunta marries Bell and they have Kizzy. Unfortunatly, Kizzy is sold because does something bad. Her new owner rapes her. This part of the book show how bad it ws for slave families to be separated. It also shows how badly slaves were treated. Also that pretty much they were treated as property instead of the people that they are.
Anyway Kizzy marries and has a child named Chicken George. The father is the slave owner Tom Lea. The story about George revolves around chicken fighting, his marriage with Mathilda and saving up money to buy their freedom. Mathilda later has a lot of children including Tom. Tom becomes a very fine blacksmith. This is around the end of the Civil War, where all the slaves were set free. In the end Tom marries Irene and they have Cynthia. It just happens that Cynthia is Alex Haley's mom. So this book can be sort of an auto biography.

PS there's a tv show based on this book