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[[image – black & white photograph of a man wearing short sleeve shirt with tie with a group of people in traditional African dress]]
[[caption]] Alex Haley with griot (center) & Gambian cousins in Juffure, his ancestral village]]

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Numerous letters from whites say something like, "Thank you that I did not feel hostility. I did not feel you were accusing me, indicting me. I felt you wre simply trying to tell me what happened."

This book took me 12 years to write. I relate that to something that my grandma used to say: The Lord may not come when you want Him to, but He will always be on time. The book has come at a time of convergence of social assuagements and a healing political climate. People are starting to find one another, and this is where, for me, the meani [[obscured]] Roots lies.

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