Welcome to the Roots 2001 Homepage. Here you will find links to several pages of interest to those studying the African background of American culture through the slave trade. For more information about the Roots Institute, please visit the Roots Institute information page.

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Special Projects Trip to Carter's Grove (Melvina Jones, ROOTS 2001) More Images from ROOTS 2001 (Joe McLaren) Mike Christopher's Images  (ROOTS 2000) Pictorial Images from the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jerome Handler) Virginia Runaways (Tom Costa) Challenges in Teaching About Africa and the Diaspora  (ROOTS 98) Benin Bronzes and other images  (ROOTS 98) A Letter re Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson  (ROOTS 98)

 Last updated 9/10/01.