{"id":28786,"date":"2013-02-17T19:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28786"},"modified":"2022-02-21T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T22:13:21","slug":"slaves-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28786","title":{"rendered":"Slaves in the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slaves-Family-Edward-Ball\/dp\/0345431057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slaves in the Family<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farrar Straus &amp; Giroux<br \/>\n1998<br \/>\n505 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-10: 0345431057; ISBN-13: 978-0345431059<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.yale.edu\/people\/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers\/edward-ball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Edward Ball<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in English<br \/>\n<em>Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Slaves-Family-Edward-Ball\/dp\/0345431057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51%2BOxrRkYlL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Carolina<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon, England<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cooper_River_(South_Carolina)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cooper River<\/a> near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charleston,_South_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charleston<\/a>. The crop was Carolina Gold\u2014rice. The empire was grown with seeds from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madagascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madagascar<\/a> and slave labour purchased on the Charleston Docks. By the time the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civil War<\/a> ended, nearly 4,000 people had been enslaved by the Balls. Descendents of the Ball slaves may number as high as 11,000 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,459,8,17,6940,20],"tags":[2882,13685,1449],"class_list":["post-28786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-slavery","category-usa","tag-edward-ball","tag-farrar-straus-giroux","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786","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=28786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63188,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions\/63188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}