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Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

Slaves in the Family

Edward Ball
504 pages
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Dec 1998
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Explores the slave-holding dynasty of Elias Ball, a South Carolina plantation owner, the history of slave uprisings, scandals, and violence, and the memories of the descendants of those slaves more than one hundred years after emancipation. 50,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. Tour.
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