Edward Ball's previous books include The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family's history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for www.doorway.ru has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public Reviews: · Edward Ball is the author of four works of nonfiction, including Slaves in the Family. Born and raised in the South, he attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before coming to New York and working as an art critic for The Village www.doorway.ru: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Description. Slaves in the family by Edward Ball. Published by Farrah, Strauss and Giroux 1st edition. Hardback with dust jacket. Jacket is rubbed at edges. There is water stain to front board which has leached through to jacket. In good condition.
Edward Ball's previous books include The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family's history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for www.doorway.ru has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public. Edward Ball talked about his book, [Slaves in the Family]. It examines the family histories of the slaves owned by his family on plantations in South Carolina. The family owned over 25 rice. EDWARD BALL. Books. LIFE OF A KLANSMAN. THE INVENTOR AND THE TYCOON. THE GENETIC STRAND. PENINSULA OF LIES. THE SWEET HELL INSIDE. SLAVES IN THE FAMILY.
Edward Ball grew up hearing stories of his family’s history of being a part of the plantation elite and of their slaves. In his work Slaves in the Family, Ball details his journey to discovering the descendants of the slaves that his family owned. He does an excellent job of detailing his own family’s history, from the arrival of the first Ball in the colonies to the end of their slaveholding past following the end of the Civil War. SLAVES IN THE FAMILY, by Edward Ball (Ballantine Books, ) The following is from the October 6, PageADay Book Lover's Calendar: This National Book Award winner for Nonfiction is the gripping account of one man who decided to investigate his rice plantation ancestors in South Carolina. Between and , the years the family was in the slave business, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery to the Balls or bought by them. The crop they raised was rice.
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