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008 970815s1998 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
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020 $a0374265828 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)37527611
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050 00 $aF279.C453$bA2 1997
082 00 $a975.7/915/0099$221
100 1 $aBall, Edward,$d1959-
245 10 $aSlaves in the family /$cEdward Ball.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c1998.
263 $a9801
300 $a32 unnumbered pages of plates, 504 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn 1698, Elias Ball traveled from his home in Devon, England, to Charleston, South Carolina, to take possession of his inheritance: part of a plantation and twenty slaves.
520 8 $aElias and his progeny built an American dynasty that lasted for six generations, acquiring more than twenty plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston, selling rice known as Carolina Gold, and enslaving close to four thousand Africans and African Americans until 1865, when Union troops arrived on the lawns of the Balls' estates to force emancipation.
520 8 $aBall 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.
520 8 $aEdward Ball has traveled all over the United States to meet descendants of Ball slaves (who number between 75,000 and 100,000 living Americans). In a series of memorable encounters, Ball hears from black families - some of whom are his blood kin - their stories, passions, and dreams, and reveals how the effects of slavery live on in black and white life and memory.
520 8 $aSlaves in the Family is a microcosm of America's defining national experience, a story of people confronting their inescapable common history.
600 30 $aBall family.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011216
650 0 $aPlantation life$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston Region$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaves$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston Region$xHistory.
650 0 $aSlaveholders$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston Region$xHistory.
651 0 $aCharleston Region (S.C.)$xRace relations.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston Region$xHistory.
651 0 $aCharleston Region (S.C.)$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hF279.C453$iA2 1998
852 00 $bbar$hF279.C453$iA2 1997