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Alex Haley's Queen: The Story of an American Family Condition:Like New Puddings and Ices and CoffeeOpening in Ireland, this book follows the story of Alex Haley's Irish great great grandfather, James Jackson, sent to the United States, where he established the Forks of Cypress plantation in Alabama and raised his family. His son formed a romantic attachment to the beautiful strong willed slave, Easter, and together they had a daughter, Queen, Alex Haley's grandmother. After the Civil War, Queen left the plantation a free woman, tried to find her