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About the Book

Slaves In The Family

Edward Ball, descendant of a seventeenth-century plantation owner in Charleston, South Carolina, chronicles the lives of the people who lived in his ancestors' lands: the African slaves, mulatto children, and his own white landowning relatives. This is the story of black and white families living side by side through three hundred years. As Ball searches out descendants of the slaves his family owned, he confronts his own fears and prejudices about slavery and his family.

Slaves In The Family
by Edward Ball

  • Publication Date: December 29, 1998
  • Paperback: 505 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • ISBN-10: 0345431057
  • ISBN-13: 9780345431059