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| Edition: | Ballantine Books (Paperback) |
| Author: | Edward Ball |
| Published: | December 1998 |
| Pages: | 544 |
| ISBN 10: | 0345431057 |
| New: | $5.94 (33) |
| Used: | $0.01 (325) |
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A 1998 National Book Award winner.
The book started with this quote:
- "There are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family," his father would say. "Religion, sex, death, money, and the Negroes."
Edward Ball sets out and traced his family's past by going through the Ball Family archives finding descendants of the slaves who worked and lived on the plantations once owned by his family patriarchs. His family's legacy started in 1698 when Elias "Red Cap" Ball sets out to make his fortune as a farmer. His descendants became members of one of the wealthiest and most prominent slave-owning families in the South.
