Slaves in the Family by Ball, Edward
Slaves in the Family by Ball, Edward

Slaves in the Family

More than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and...
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Author: Edward Ball
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Slaves in the Family by Ball, Edward

Slaves in the Family

$40.46
Slaves in the Family by Ball, Edward

Slaves in the Family

$40.46
Author: Edward Ball
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

More than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.

The Ball family hails from South Carolina--Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them.

In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. Part historical narrative, part oral history, part personal story of investigation and catharsis, Slaves in the Family is, in the words of Pat Conroy, a work of breathtaking generosity and courage, a magnificent study of the complexity and strangeness and beauty of the word 'family.'

Author: Edward Ball
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/22/2014
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780374534455

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 31
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 83331 / Slaves in the Family

About the Author
Edward Ball is the author of four works of nonfiction, including Slaves in the Family. Born and raised in the South, he attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before coming to New York and working as an art critic for The Village Voice. He lives in Connecticut and teaches writing at Yale University.
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