Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball (1999, Hardcover, Large Print) 
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball (1999, Hardcover, Large Print)

 
Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball (1999, Hardcover, Large Print)

Author: Edward Ball
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Series: G K Hall Large Print Book Series
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0783886284
ISBN-13: 9780783886282
Product ID: EPID1093299
Description: A personal history of slavery in the South, written by a descendant of South Carolina slaveowners who traced the histories of the slave families owned by his ancestors and searched out their descendants. A New York Times Notable Book for...
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Synopsis
A personal history of slavery in the South, written by a descendant of South Carolina slaveowners who traced the histories of the slave families owned by his ancestors and searched out their descendants. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.

Details
Publication Date:1999-05-01
Series:G K Hall Large Print Book Series
Edition Description:Large Print

Size
Length:843 pages
Height:10.0 in
Width:7.0 in
Thickness:1.8 in
Weight:42.4 oz

Publisher's Note
In 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in England to take possession of his inheritance - a plantation in South Carolina and twenty slaves. He and his progeny built an American dynasty on the labor of nearly four thousand slaves. The author is a descendant of Elias. Here he chronicles the lives of the people who lived on his ancestors' lands, and most remarkable of all, he relates his travels across the U.S. to meet the descendants of Ball slaves. Their stories reveals how the effect of slavery live on in black and white life and memory, and Slaves in the Family is a story of people confronting their inescapable common history.

Industry Reviews
"...an entirely absorbing combination of historical reconstruction and social observation. Edward Ball is a journalist and he uses investigative journalism to very good effect, mixing documentary research and historical narrative with a series of expertly handled interviews....Edward Ball has made a very valuable contribution to our knowledge of this nefarious trade and what it has done to the American psyche. His book deserves to be widely read."
Literary Review - Barry Unsworth (07/19/1998)

"Ball's impressive detective work and the black voices it records build a monumental and extraordinary case history of the rise and fall of America's most shameful institution."
Kirkus Reviews (02/01/1998)

"The book is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Charlotte Painter (02/22/1998)

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