The Spiritual Manifestations of Alex Haley | Roots, Ancestral Voices & the Spirit of Elijah (LDS)
Send us Fan MailDid the author of Roots hear his ancestors' voices — and did the Spirit of Elijah guide the most-watched television event in American history? In a 1993 BYU-Idaho devotional called "Family Histories," Elder J. Richard Clark — who oversaw the Church's family history department — shared what Alex Haley personally told him about the spiritual experiences behind the book that changed the world's relationship to genealogy. While researching Kunta Kinte's story aboard a freighter crossing the Atlantic, Haley forced himself into the ship's hold night after night, lying on a plank in…
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