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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. maps the roots of two award-winning writers: novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove, tracing lineages that run from a plantation in Maryland to a speakeasy in Washington ...

In "From These Roots," the author chronicles a legal and personal journey to restore dignity to her enslaved relative.

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