It's common knowledge: Alex Haley plagiarized the story for Roots, entire passages verbatim, from the white, African-folklorist Harold Courlander's 1967 novel The African.

Chastity belts confine feminists from the **** tide ****** **** stem
With lesbian-fighting techniques Hillary F. Clinton could **** them
through grab bags of shot-gun-pattern-spread-blood-tinged phlegm
spattered on vinyl floors that trump linseed-oil-generated linoleum,
reflective of war against Christians in an ancient Romano coliseum