Making Roots by Matthew F. Delmont

Author:Matthew F. Delmont
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520291324
Publisher: University of California Press

Figure 13. Haley signing copies of Roots at mall in Los Angeles, 1977. Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images.

Haley’s plentiful notes, letters, and drafts offer tantalizing hints of the people, incidents, and themes that did not fit his orderly vision for Roots. In his unpublished manuscript “My Search for Roots,” Haley described a woman, Old Sister Dinti, whom he had known as a boy in Henning, Tennessee. “She had actually been a slave, and to prove it she would let anybody, including us boys, push their hands up her bare back under her blouse to feel for themselves the hard raised welts that still remained from the beatings she had gotten as a young slave girl,” Haley wrote.

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