From National Book Award winner Edward Ball comes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave, who cast off their blemished roots and prospered despite racial barriers. Enhanced by recollections from the family's archivist, eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock - whose bloodline the author shares. The Sweet Hell Inside features a celebrated portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; and an orphanage founder who created the famous Jenkins Orphanage Band, a definitive force in the development of ragtime and jazz. With evocative and engrossing storytelling, Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured, vain, imperfect, rich, and black - a family of eccentrics who defied social convention and flourished.

The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South (National Book Award Winner)

EDWARD BALL

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William Morrow Paperbacks

Applied Assembly Language on the BBC Microcomputer (Prentice-Hall International personal computer book)

PRENTICE/HALL

Slaves in the Family

Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in a southern family in dispersal and decline. In 1698, a planter named Elias Ball arrived in South Carolina from Devon, England, to claim an inheritance to one half of a plantation. By 1865, the Ball family of South Carolina owned over a dozen plantations along the Cooper River near Charleston. The crop was Carolina Gold - rice. The empire was grown with seeds from Madagascar and slave labour purchased on the Charleston Docks. By the time the civil war ended, nearly 4,000 people had been enslaved by the Balls. Descendents of the Ball slaves may number as high as 11,000 today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin??Books

Biographies & Memoirs

VIKING

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History

Americas

Phoenix

Community & Culture

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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Mit List Visual Arts Center

Robert Edward Ball

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center

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