Before Dreams," There Was Roots


	Before Dreams," There Was Roots

Jacob173

11-1-2009 9:14 AM

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Jacob173 says:

The fraud that was "Roots". How Haley's work was derived from " The African" by Courlander and a subsequent genealogy research confirmed the falseness of the book.

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