And I thought I was a loner in thinking roots was almost total Doo-Doo.
Almost the entire book was made up. Haley had to pay another author for plagiarism.
Two professional genealogists researched Haley’s “Roots”. They concluded everything was false and he made a particularly serious fraud by claiming kinship to the Lea Family of Virginia when he was not.
They said his research did not even equal that of amateur genealogists. There really was a ship named the “Lord Liganeer” and there really was a slave named Tobey. They had nothing to do with each other.
The mainstream media will not report the facts, tho the info is out there.
I remember when Bill Cosby said he was having his roots researched by the greatest genealogist of all. Guess who?