His adolescent attraction to the beautiful and strongwilled slave named Easter blossoms into a powerful and lasting love, and from their passionate union comes Queen-the heroine of the tale, Alex Haley’s grandmother. James’s son, Jass Jackson, inherits the plantation just as the genteel, well-ordered antebellum world begins to crumble. He establishes his grand plantation, The Forks of Cypress, in Alabama, while Andrew ascends to the White House, and the rumblings that will explode into the Civil War gather force. The two men become business partners and James Jackson makes his fortune. From there we travel with Jackson to Nashville, where he meets Andrew Jackson, the future president of the United States. The story begins in Ireland, where Haley’s white great-great-grandfather, James Jackson, Sr., is born. Sign up for the newsletter.Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter-Haley’s grandmother, Queen. Get the Borowitz Report in your in-box.Queen Elizabeth II offers to restore British rule over the United States.

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Just me, and then, assuming you’d rather not have Charles, we could go straight to William and those children of his who have mesmerized you so.” The Queen urged Americans to write in her name on Election Day, after which the transition to British rule could begin “with a minimum of bother.”Įlizabeth acknowledged that, in the wake of Brexit, Americans might justifiably be alarmed about being governed by the British parliamentary system, but she reassured them, “Parliament would play no role in this deal.

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