There came from somewhere into my head a staggering awareness...that if any black American could be so blessed as I had been to know only a few ancestral clues-could he or she know who was either the paternal or maternal African ancestor or ancestors, and about where that ancestor was taken-then only those few clues might well see that black American able to locate some wizened old black griot whose narrative could reveal the black Americans ancestral clan, perhaps even the very village.1

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1. Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family : The 30th Anniversary Edition (New York: Vanguard Books, 2007), 877-878.