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100	1		_aBall, Edward
245	1	0	_aSlaves in the family _c/ Edward Ball
260			_aNew York _b: Ballantine Books _c, 1999
300			_a505 p. _c; 21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aIt 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.
650		4	_aPlantation life
650		4	_aSlaves
650		4	_aAfrican Americans _z--South Carolina _x--History
650		4	_aRace relations
651			_aCharleston (S.C.) _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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