{"id":21002,"date":"2012-03-01T02:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21002"},"modified":"2013-05-14T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:49:09","slug":"the-sweet-hell-inside-the-rise-of-an-elite-black-family-in-the-segregated-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21002","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harper Perennial an imprint HarperCollins
\n2001-09-30
\n432 pages
\n5 5\/16 x 8
\nISBN: 9780060505905; ISBN10: 0060505907<\/p>\n

Edward Ball<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in English
\nYale University<\/em><\/p>\n

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From National Book Award winner ccomes The Sweet Hell Inside<\/em>, the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina<\/a>, 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\u2014whose bloodline the author shares. The Sweet Hell<\/em> Inside features a celebrated portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre du Pont<\/a>; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation<\/a> of 1920s Paris; and an orphanage founder who created the famous Jenkins Orphanage<\/a> Band, a definitive force in the development of ragtime and jazz.<\/p>\n

With evocative and engrossing storytelling, Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured, vain, imperfect, rich, and black\u2014a family of eccentrics who defied social convention and flourished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South Harper Perennial an imprint HarperCollins 2001-09-30 432 pages 5 5\/16 x 8 ISBN: 9780060505905; ISBN10: 0060505907 Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University From National Book Award winner ccomes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,17,20],"tags":[2882,9831,1449],"class_list":["post-21002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-edward-ball","tag-harper-perennial","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}