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  title info:
    title: Slaves in the family
  name:
    name part: Ball, Edward
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biography.
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies
  genre: History
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 505, [20] pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves. Through meticulous research and by interviewing scattered relatives, Ball contacted some 100,000 African-Americans who are all descendants of Ball slaves. In intimate conversations with them, he garnered information, hard words, and devastating family stories of precisely what it means to be enslaved. He found that the family plantation owners were far from benevolent patriarchs; instead there is a dark history of exploitation, interbreeding, and extreme violence.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Plantation memories -- Masters from England -- The well of tradition -- Bright Ma -- A family business -- Written in the blood -- The making of a dynasty -- Sawmill -- Bloodlines -- "Yours, obediently" -- A house divided -- The width of the realm -- A painter's legacy --- The curse of Buzzard Wing -- The siege -- Aftermath -- The preservation society -- A reckoning -- Bunce Island.
  note: Edward Ball.
  note: Includes Reader's Guide after index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-486) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-sc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ball family
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ball family
  subject:
    topic: Plantation life
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Enslaved persons
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Slaveholders
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston Region (S.C.)
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston Region
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Charleston Region (S.C.)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
  subject:
    topic: Plantation life
  subject:
    topic: Race relations
  subject:
    topic: Slaveholders
  subject:
    topic: Enslaved persons
  subject:
    geographic: South Carolina
    geographic: Charleston Region
  classification: F279.C453 A2 2001
  classification: 975.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ballantine reader's circle
  identifier: 0345431057
  identifier: 9780345431059
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: IHT
    record creation date: 020909
    record change date: 20240808224901.3
    record identifier: in00004816954
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng