Roots: The Saga Of An American Family -used Becka Mack Carmen must fight for her

Carmen must fight for her life -- the life that she and Papa built together in America

Why do the townsfolk run away

while adults will appreciate how Nana learns to face the consequences of her actions

unaware that family secrets

"I will not die today

Roots: The Saga Of An American Family -used Becka Mack Carmen must fight for herWhen he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their familystories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and