Slaves in the family / Edward Ball.

Slaves in the family / Edward Ball.

By
: 
Ball, Edward, 1959-

Publication Date
: 
1998

Publication Information
: 
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

Physical Description
: 
504 p. : ill., maps.

Subject Term
: 
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
 
Slaves -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
 
Slaveholders -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.
 
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston Region -- History.

Geographic Term
: 
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Race relations.
 
Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography.

Summary
: 
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.

Language
: 
English

ISBN
: 
9780374265823
 
9780965580274


LibraryCollectionCollectionCall Number
Grand Falls-Windsor - HarmsworthAdult NFicAdult Non-Fiction975.7915 B21