The Resource Slaves in the family, Edward Ball
Slaves in the family, Edward Ball
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The item Slaves in the family, Edward Ball represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 504 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- 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
- Plantation memories
- Bunce Island
- Masters from England
- The well of tradition
- Bright Ma
- A family business
- Written in the blood
- The making of a dynasty
- Sawmill
- Isbn
- 9780965580274
- Label
- Slaves in the family
- Title
- Slaves in the family
- Statement of responsibility
- Edward Ball
- Subject
-
- Ball family
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography
- Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Slaveholders -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Slaves -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Plantation life -- South Carolina | Charleston -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Awards note
- National Book Award for Non-fiction, 1998.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ball, Edward
- Dewey number
- 975.7/915/0099
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F279.C453
- LC item number
- A2 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- 975.7915 B187s
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Ball family
- Plantation life
- Slaves
- Slaveholders
- African Americans
- Charleston Region (S.C.)
- Charleston Region (S.C.)
- African Americans
- Label
- Slaves in the family, Edward Ball
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-484), and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Plantation memories
- Bunce Island
- Masters from England
- The well of tradition
- Bright Ma
- A family business
- Written in the blood
- The making of a dynasty
- Sawmill
- Control code
- ocm37527611
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 504 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780965580274
- Lccn
- 97034640
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)37527611
- Label
- Slaves in the family, Edward Ball
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-484), and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- Plantation memories
- Bunce Island
- Masters from England
- The well of tradition
- Bright Ma
- A family business
- Written in the blood
- The making of a dynasty
- Sawmill
- Control code
- ocm37527611
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 504 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780965580274
- Lccn
- 97034640
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)37527611
Subject
- Ball family
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography
- Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations
- African Americans -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Slaveholders -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Slaves -- South Carolina | Charleston Region -- History
- Plantation life -- South Carolina | Charleston -- History
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