Orem Library

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...

In 1855, thoroughly Southern student Fletcher Randall leaves his father's North Carolina plantation to attend Princeton University. There he is exposed to different opinions about slavery and the plantation life, and he begins to conspire to bring a mass exodus of slaves through the Underground Railroad. His chief helper is a black slave named Harpin' John, whose harmonica music will play a major role in the escape plan, set for Christmas Eve.