Slaves in the Family - Edward Ball
KORTE INHOUD
The Ball family hails from South CarolinaCharleston 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.'"
"Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...Like Alex Haley's 'Roots', through which African American history came into national focus...'Slaves in the family' has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind... The book is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its ...
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.'"
"Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...Like Alex Haley's 'Roots', through which African American history came into national focus...'Slaves in the family' has the potential for creating a perceptual shift in the American mind... The book is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its ...
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