Henry Louis Gates - You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Ale...

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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates

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Man kann sagen, ich hatte einen schweren Fall von Neid der Wurzeln. Ich wollte wie Alex Haley sein, und ich wollte ... in der Lage sein, meinen Stammbaum zurück zum Sklavenschiff zu machen und dann die Mittlere Passage umzukehren, wie ich es gerne formuliere, und den Stamm oder die ethnische Gruppe zu finden, die ich habe kam aus in Afrika.

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