Ball, Edward Slaves in the Family ISBN 13: 9780374265823

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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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Writer Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote: "My father had a little joke that made light of our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,' he would say. 'Religion, sex, death, money and the Negroes.'" Ball himself seemed happy enough to avoid these touchy issues until an invitation to a family reunion in South Carolina piqued his interest in his family's extensive plantation and slave-holding past. He realized that he had a very clear idea of who his white ancestors were--their names, who their children and children's children were, even portraits and photographs--but he had only a murky vision of the black people who supported their livelihood and were such an intimate part of their daily lives; he knew neither their names nor what happened to them and their descendants after they were freed following the Civil War. So he embarked on a journey to uncover the history of the Balls and the black families with whom their lives were inextricably intertwined, as well as the less tangible resonance of slavery in both sets of families. From plantation records, interviews with descendants of both the Balls and their slaves, and travels to Africa and the American South, Ball has constructed a story of the riches and squalor, violence and insurrection--the pride and shame--that make up the history and legacy of slavery in America.
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"Powerful." --"The New York Times Book Review

""Gripping." --"The Boston Globe"

"Brilliant." --"The New Yorker"

"A landmark book." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...["Slaves in the Family"] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest." --"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past." --"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"" ""Much more than bare history...It's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance." --"Detroit Free Press"
"A masterpiece . . . It is a work about slaves in the family. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions." "--The Raleigh News & Observer
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"[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . . . It reminds us of our common humanity and of the ties that still bind us, no matter what the wounds of the past." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

"Powerful." --"The New York Times Book Review
""Gripping." --"The Boston Globe"
"Brilliant." --"The New Yorker"
"A landmark book." --"San Francisco Chronicle" "Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...["Slaves in the Family"] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest." --"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past." --"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"" ""Much more than bare history...It's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance." --"Detroit Free Press"
"A masterpiece . . . It is a work about slaves in the family. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions." "--The Raleigh News & Observer
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"[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . . . It reminds us of our common humanity and of the ties that still bind us, no matter what the wounds of the past." --"The Philadelphia Inquirer"

Powerful. "The New York Times Book Review"

Gripping. "The Boston Globe"

Brilliant. "The New Yorker"

A landmark book. "San Francisco Chronicle"

Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...["Slaves in the Family"] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest. "San Francisco Chronicle"

Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past. "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

Much more than bare history...It's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance. "Detroit Free Press"

A masterpiece . . . It is a work about slaves in the family. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions. "The Raleigh News & Observer"

[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . . . It reminds us of our common humanity and of the ties that still bind us, no matter what the wounds of the past. "The Philadelphia Inquirer""

Powerful. The New York Times Book Review

Gripping. The Boston Globe

Brilliant. The New Yorker

A landmark book. San Francisco Chronicle

Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...[Slaves in the Family] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest. San Francisco Chronicle

Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Much more than bare history...It's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance. Detroit Free Press

A masterpiece . . . It is a work about slaves in the family. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions. The Raleigh News & Observer

[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . . . It reminds us of our common humanity and of the ties that still bind us, no matter what the wounds of the past. The Philadelphia Inquirer

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"Powerful." --The New York Times Book Review

"Gripping." --The Boston Globe

"Brilliant." --The New Yorker

"A landmark book." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Everyone should read and learn from this luminous book...[Slaves in the Family] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Outside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Much more than bare history...It's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance." --Detroit Free Press

"A masterpiece . . . It is a work about slaves in the family. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions." --The Raleigh News & Observer

"[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . . . It reminds us of our common humanity and of the ties that still bind us, no matter what the wounds of the past." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

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  • PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
  • Publication date1998
  • ISBN 10 0374265828
  • ISBN 13 9780374265823
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