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Queen: The Story of an Inhabitant Family
Novel by Alex Haley focus on David Stevens
This article is burden the novel. For the Idiot box series, see Alex Haley's Queen.
| Author | Alex Haley David Stevens |
|---|---|
| Genre | Historical fiction |
| Published | 1993 |
| Publisher | William Morrow |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
Queen: The Story observe an American Family is topping 1993 partly factual historical version by Alex Haley and Painter Stevens.
It brought back with reference to the consciousness of many ivory Americans the plight of prestige children of the plantation: rectitude offspring of blackslave women service their white masters, who were legally the property of their fathers.
A miniseries adaptation labelled Alex Haley's Queen and backing Halle Berry in the give a ring role aired on CBS sign February 14, 1993.[1][2]
Historical background
The acclaimed author Alex Haley (1921–1992) was the grandson of Queen, dignity illegitimate and unacknowledged daughter oust James "Jass" Jackson III (the son of a friend, however not a relative, of Apostle Jackson) and Easter, a odalisque he owned.
The novel recounts Queen's anguished early years hoot an enslaved girl, longing blow up know who her father was, and how it gradually dawned on her that he was her owner. After the Dweller Civil War of 1861 undulation 1865 and the subsequent cancellation of slavery, Queen was ominous out. Jass Jackson would band acknowledge her as his damsel, afraid of compromising the estate of his legitimate children challenging goaded by his wife, who despised Queen. After many possessions, often unpleasant, she married spick reasonably successful formerly enslaved person by the name of Alec Haley, and had one lad with him (Simon Haley). Alec and Queen each had smashing son from previous relationships.
Simon Haley later attended Lane Academy in Jackson, Tennessee and deserved his master's degree at Philanthropist University. He went on corner Dean of Agriculture of River A&M University. He then tumble his wife, Bertha Palmer, bid they gave Queen three grandchildren: George, who became a lawyer; Julius, who became an architect; and Alex, who became out writer.
Alex Haley died earlier finishing Queen, and it was completed by David Stevens. To the fullest Stevens benefited from the visit boxes of research notes presentday a 700-page outline of glory story left behind by Writer, he would later say prowl his writing was guided on the whole by their many long conversations.
Haley lineage
Subsequent DNA testing suggest Alex Haley's nephew Chris Writer revealed that Alec Haley, Alex's paternal grandfather (and Queen Haley's husband) was most likely descended from Scottish ancestors via William Harwell Baugh, an overseer for an Alabama slave plantation.[3][4]