The novel is actually about Kunta Kinte and his descendants.

这部小说实际上是关于昆塔金特和他的后代的。

They used to call me Kunta Kinte because I came from Mississippi.

他们以前叫我 Kunta Kinte，因为我来自密西西比州。

Alex Haley, being a writer, decided to take the story of Kunta Kinte and make it into a novel called Roots.

Alex Haley， 作为一名作家，决定将 Kunta Kinte 的故事写成一部名为 Roots 的小说。

Haley then learned who Kunta Kinte's children had been and who their children had been, until he was able to follow the relatives down to his own parents and, of course, to himself.

黑利随后了解了康塔·金特的孩子是谁， 以及他们的孩子是谁，直到他能够跟随亲戚找到他自己的父母， 当然还有他自己。