Slaves in the Family

2017-10-24 History

Author : Edward Ball
Release : 2017-10-24
Genre : History
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Download or read book Slaves in the Family written by Edward Ball. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, with a new preface by the author The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, "a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word ‘family.'"

Slaves in the Family

2014-04-22 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Edward Ball
Release : 2014-04-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 454/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Slaves in the Family written by Edward Ball. This book was released on 2014-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Slaves in the Family

1998 African Americans

Author : Edward Ball
Release : 1998
Genre : African Americans
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Download or read book Slaves in the Family written by Edward Ball. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ball chronicles the lives of people who lived on his ancestors' lands: the violence and the opulence, the slave uprisings and escapes, the white and black heroes of the American Revolution, the mulatto children of Ball masters and "Ball slaves," and the culminating shock of the Civil War. He reconstructs the genealogies of slave families - from the first African captives, through ten generations, to the present - and travels to Sierra Leone to visit a prison from which his family once bought workers.

Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom

2011-06-15 History

Author : Calvin Schermerhorn
Release : 2011-06-15
Genre : History
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Download or read book Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom written by Calvin Schermerhorn. This book was released on 2011-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of how slaves seized opportunities that emerged from North Carolina's pre-Civil War modernization and economic diversification to protect their families from being sold, revealing the integral role played by empowered African-American families in regional antebellum economics and politics. Simultaneous.

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