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The sweet hell inside : a family history / Edward Ball.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Family History Room Fa 929.2 H375b 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Edward, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harleston family.
- African American families--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Biography.
- African American families.
- Interracial marriage--South Carolina--Charleston Region--History.
- Interracial marriage.
- Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Biography--African Americans.
- African Americans.
- Slaveholders--South Carolina--Charleston Region--Biography.
- Slaveholders.
- Charleston Region (S.C.)--Biography.
- Charleston Region (S.C.).
- Charleston Region (S.C.)--Race relations.
- African American families--Biography.
- Multiracial people--United States--Biography.
- Multiracial people.
- Race relations.
- South Carolina--Charleston Region.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : William Morrow, ©2001.
- Summary:
- Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingly successful funeral parlor business. Their wealth afforded the Harlestons the comfort of chauffeurs, tailored clothes, and servants whose skin was darker than theirs. It also launched the family into a generation of glory as painters, performers, and photographers in the "high yellow" society of America's colored upper class. The Harlestons' remarkable 100-year journey spans the waning days of Reconstruction, the precious art world of the early 1900s, the back alleys of the Jazz Age, and the dawn of the civil rights movement.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Part 1-The Master and His Orphans-Part 2-High Yellow-Porch 3 -Eyes Sadder Then the Grave-Part 4-Nigger Rich-Part 5-The Orphans Dancers-Part 6-A Trunk in the Grass-Notes-Permission and Photography Credits-Acknowledgments-Index. If.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- ISBN:
- 068816840X
- 9780688168407
- OCLC:
- 46685603
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