01760cam a2200325 4500 2828907 TxAuBib 20080202120000.0 241109s1999||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780345431059 pbk. 0345431057 pbk. (OCoLC)40597904 TxAuBib Ball, Edward, 1958- Slaves in the family / Edward Ball. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1999. 505 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-486) and index. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves. Through meticulous research and by interviewing scattered relatives, Ball contacted some 100,000 African-Americans who are all descendants of Ball slaves. In intimate conversations with them, he garnered information, hard words, and devastating family stories of precisely what it means to be enslaved. 20080202. Ball family. Plantation life South Carolina Charleston History. Slaveholders South Carolina Charleston History. African Americans South Carolina Charleston History. Enslaved persons South Carolina Charleston History. Charleston Region (S.C) Race relations. Charleston Region (S.C) Biography. TXMOO