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Slaves in the Family

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Availability:In StockContributor:Edward BallSeries:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2014-04-22Pages:544
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534455ISBN-10:374534454UPC:9780374534455Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Slavery, Historical, Personal MemoirsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SC2435MHRH

Decades 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.'"
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374534455ISBN-10:374534454UPC:9780374534455Book Category:Social Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Slavery, Historical, Personal MemoirsSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.2809Product ID:SC2435MHRH
Edward Ball is the author of several 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.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Edward Ball

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