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Roots

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Description: This poignant and powerful narrative tells the dramatic story of Kunta Kinte, snatched from freedom in Africa and brought by ship to America and slavery, and his descendants. 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1976.
Call number: 657293
Creator: Haley, Alex(Opens in new tab)
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Smith - Roots. 1 item

Manuscripts

The collection has several strong subject points for the purpose of research including journalism and the writing process and the history of Los Angeles. There are many letters written during World War II that discuss life in America as well as abroad, especially Iwo Jima. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence to Smith from his readers, many of whom were persons of note, and Smith's own subject files of topics often discussed in his columns. The manuscripts include a number of Smith's notebooks as well as drafts of essays and monographs. The ephemera includes appearances of Smith's columns, photographs of Smith's work and family, and printed materials related to Smith's work and family life.

mssSmith, Jack papers

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Proverbs

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"'Proverbs' is an ongoing series of photographs in which the artist focuses on universal truths. Using trained circus animals in many of his images--from gargantuan brown bear to monkeys, dogs, lions and most recently, elephants--in settings absent of artifacts or other cultural information, Maiofis offers visually poignant, strike to the heart-of-the-matter images"--Publisher's description.

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Enoch Root letters

Manuscripts

The letters are addressed to several of Root's friends and family members while he was traveling around Europe (1858-1859), mining in Colorado (1862), and in the Union Army at Sulphur Springs, and Pilot Knob, Missouri (1863). In the letters Root talks about his travels throughout Switzerland and France, and impending war in Europe, and his experience in the mining town of Laurette, CO, now known as Buckskin Joe, CO. In the letters before he joined the U.S. army, Root often conveys his feelings about slavery and the Civil War; in the two letters after he joined the army, he talks about his experience as a soldier, although his regiment had yet to see action

mssHM 63411-63427

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The wood beyond the world

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Set in Morris's imaginative recreation of a medieval world, The Wood Beyond the World tells the story of a young man, Golden Walter, who finds himself in a strange and frightening world after being abandoned by his wife and lost at sea. The novel takes the form of Walter's quest for the visionary maid that he sees at the beginning of his journey, and takes him from his failed marriage through temptation to fulfillment.

607157

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The wood beyond the world

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The wood beyond the world

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