Description: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball, Vintage 1998 Trade Paperback. Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline. In 1698, a planter named Elias Ball arrived in South Carolina from Devon, England, to claim an inheritance to one half of a plantation. By 1865, the Ball family of South Carolina owned over a dozen plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston. The crop was Carolina Gold - rice. The empire was grown with seeds from Madagascar and slave labour purchased on the Charleston Docks. By the time the civil war ended, nearly 4,000 people had been enslaved by the Balls. Descendents of the Ball slaves may number as high as 11,000 today.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Slaves in the Family
Number of Pages: 544 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1998
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Slavery, Genealogy & Heraldry, Cultural Heritage, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 19th Century, General, United States / General, Historical, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Reprint
Genre: Référence, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Edward Ball
Item Length: 8.2 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
