Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Plot
Alex Haley's Roots: The Saga of an American Family tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as a child and sold into slavery in the United States. It follows his life and the lives of his descendants in the U.S. After being captured and sold into slavery Kunta tries running away at least four different times. His owner, John Waller, catches him all four times and to prevent it from happening again has part of his right foot cut off. Eventually Kunta is sold to another family who treats the slaves better allowing him to marry and have a child. The next part focuses on his daughter Kizzy. Kizzy's childhood is a happy one as she becomes friends with her master's daughter. It changes when her masters discover she was forging papers for another slave. When caught she was sold off to another family. The new master, Tom Lea, rapes and impregnates her and she gives birth to George. George's story continues as he becomes a philanderer, marries and has several children including Tom Jr. Eventually the civil war comes and goes and even though the last family is extremely kind to them the family decides to move North as free slaves. One of their daughters goes to college, meets and marries a man named Simon Haley. In the end they have a son named Alex, the author of the book.

Effects
Touching will show user their past going back seven generations, however will only show the hardships that they had faced.