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Slaves in the family Edward Ball
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F 279 .C453 A2 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Edward, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ball family.
- Plantation life--South Carolina--History.
- Plantation life.
- Enslaved persons--South Carolina--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slaveholders--South Carolina--History.
- Slaveholders.
- Charleston Region (S.C.)--Race relations.
- Charleston Region (S.C.).
- African Americans--South Carolina--History.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- 526 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine, 2001.
- Summary:
- There is much to admire in Ball's very willingness to challenge the generations of silence in his white family and to search out black kin whose reactions he had every reason to fear.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-484) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 0345431057
- 9780345431059
- OCLC:
- 191213900
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