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.
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The federal judge Robert Ward, who presided over Haley’s plagiarism trial said, “I did not want to destroy him”, and found the author of “ROOTS”  ALEX HALEY guilty of PLAGIARISM and the case was settled out of court.  Later it was learned the Federal Judge told Courlander to keep quiet about the huge settlement because the “Roots” author had become too important to black people to be torn down in public. Courlander was awarded $650,000 (about 2.4 million today).

Slavery is a Lie. ROOTS and KUNTA KINTE NEVER EXISTED Alex Haley lied about his heritage.

None of the written records in Virginia and North Carolina line up with the ROOTS story until after the Civil War.

Despite his status as the United States best-selling story teller Haley’s work have been excluded from the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature.

U.S. History is built upon lies and conjecture. Do not expect it to tell you the truth.
Question your surroundings, and challenge their rights to land.  Where do they come from? Are they American? or are they European? The Webster’s 1828 definition of American does not describe them as the original inhabitants.

Background on Alex Haley. He was a 20 year U.S. government veteran when he wrote ROOTS.