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Slaves in the family

Ball, Edward, 1959- author

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\"Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves. Through meticulous research and by interviewing scattered relatives, Ball contacted some 100,000 African-Americans who are all descendants of Ball slaves. In intimate conversations with them, he garnered information, hard words, and devastating family stories of precisely what it means to be enslaved. He found that the family plantation owners were far from benevolent patriarchs; instead there is a dark history of exploitation, interbreeding, and extreme violence\"--Publisher description.

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Subject: Ball family. / Plantation life South Carolina Charleston History. / Slaves South Carolina Charleston History. / Slaveholders South Carolina Charleston History. / African Americans South Carolina Charleston History. / African Americans. / Plantation life. / Race relations. / Slaveholders. / Slaves. / Charleston Region (S.C.) Race relations. / Charleston Region (S.C.) Biography. / South Carolina Charleston / South Carolina Charleston Region.
• ISBN: 9780374534455, 0374534454

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F279.C453 A2 2014	1	BOOK	GENERAL