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[05:46.91]A long time ago,one of his ancestors who lived in Africa
[05:52.68]went into the forest to cut down a tree to make a drum.
[05:57.93]He was caught,put in chains,and sent to America as a slave.
[06:04.88]On his arrival he was sold to a farmer and worked in the fields.
[06:11.54]He tried to escape but was followed and caught.
[06:16.89]The farmer cut off part of his foot to make sure he could not run away again.
[06:24.76]When he became a writer,Haley up his mind to find out more about his ancestors.
[06:32.12]"I want to find cut more about my 'roots',"he said.
[06:37.48]He did a lot of research and travelled around the USA
[06:43.12]looking for information about his ancestors.
[06:47.77]In this way he was able to find out where they lived,how many children they had,
[06:55.03]and where they died and were buried.
[06:58.87]He collected letters and made copies of people's diaries.
[07:04.44]But Haley was not satisfied.
[07:07.89]He did not know from which pqrt of Africa his ancestor had come.
[07:13.82]All he knew was that his African ancestor taught his son
[07:21.57]and grandson the words in his own language for "river"and "guitar".
[07:28.13]One day Haley met an African who was from Gambia,
[07:33.77]a small country on the west coast of Africa.
[07:38.21]This persom recognized the words for"river"and"guitar",
[07:43.36]and so Haley thought that his ancestor must have come from Gambia.
[07:47.93]His newspaper provided him with some money
[07:52.08]in order that he might travel to Gambia for his research.
[07:57.34]The moment he reached the country,he started his search.
[08:02.32]He discovered that there was a group in the east of the country
[08:07.18]that shared the same family name--Kinte.
[08:11.91]So he travelled there to find out more.
[08:15.67]In Gambia,as in most parts of Africa,
[08:20.32]there are few written records of family history.
[08:24.58]All the stories of families,heroes,wars and journeys
[08:31.35]are passed down from generation to generation.
[08:35.89]A few people in each group
[08:39.44]are given the task of remembering the group's family history
[08:44.59]that goes back over centuries.
[08:48.35]One of these men was found and he began to tell the story of this family group.
[08:55.48]After speaking for about half an hour he came to a sad part of the family history.
[09:02.62]One day,a young man named Kunta Kinte went off into the forest
[09:09.38]to cut down a tree as he wanted to make a drum a drum.
[09:14.24]He was never seen agfain.Haley jumped up and cried,"That was my ancestor".
[09:21.50]He had found his family,and his"roots"at last!