Slaves in the Family - Paperback

Name: Slaves in the Family - Paperback
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9780374534455
Price: 25.00 USD
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by Edward Ball

$25.00

Book Overview

Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, 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.'"

ISBN	9780374534455
Author	Edward Ball
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Biography and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2014
Language	ENG- English
Pages	544
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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