Slaves in the family
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Ball family.
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography.
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Slaveholders -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Slaves -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Ball family.
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography.
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Slaveholders -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
Slaves -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-484) and index.
Description
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.--From publisher description.
Awards
National Book Award for Non-fiction, 1998.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ball, E. (1998). Slaves in the family . Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ball, Edward, 1959-. 1998. Slaves in the Family. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ball, Edward, 1959-. Slaves in the Family Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
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