Slaves in the Family
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ISBN: 0374265828 / Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1998
Explores the slave-holding dynasty of Elias Ball, a South Carolina plantation owner, the history of slave uprisings, and the memories of the descendants of those slaves
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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. 50,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. Tour.
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