Slaves in the family / Edward Ball.
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- ISBN: 0783886284 (lg. print : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 843 p. (large print) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Thorndike, Me. : G.K. Hall, 1999.
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General Note: | Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 771-834). |
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Slaves in the Family
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.