Slaves in the family
Ball, Edward
Slaves in the family / Edward Ball - New York : Ballantine Books , 1999 - 505 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
9780345431059
Plantation life
Slaves
African Americans----History----South Carolina
Race relations
Charleston (S.C.)----Biography
975.7915 BAL
Slaves in the family / Edward Ball - New York : Ballantine Books , 1999 - 505 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
9780345431059
Plantation life
Slaves
African Americans----History----South Carolina
Race relations
Charleston (S.C.)----Biography
975.7915 BAL