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1 online resource (1 audio file (20hr., 16 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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FSG classics.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
| Summary |
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'. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Ball family.
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Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History.
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Slaves -- South Carolina -- History.
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Slaveholders -- South Carolina -- History.
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Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- South Carolina -- History.
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Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ball, Edward.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781250213365 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1250213363 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12603274 |
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