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Lot 362
Sale 5132 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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(African-Americana)...
(African-Americana) 1 Piece. (Autograph material.) (Haley, Alex.) (Kansas City, Kansas), (1965). Manuscript notes on unfolded pink napkin, 13 x 12 3/4 inches; 330 x 323 mm. Recording fragments of an oral family history recounted by an elderly relative (Cousin Georgia) relating to the early generations of the families' enslaved African and African-American ancestors; accounts incorporated in Alex Haley's novel Roots, published in 1976.