The Ball family members were more artful collectors of information than many of their peers. it had nevertheless survived. Parts did make me uncomfortable, often slave were referred to as "workers" and I felt the narrative was white. At times it was slow moving, but the book was at its best when Ball described conversations with people. The letters chronicled their lives, while the accounts detailed the So, I took the plunge and it was incredible. And it was not only "us," the families of former slave owners, who carried the baggage of the plantations. The new Mrs. Ball might own land or slaves Anyone white, European-Americans who has done some family history research that links them back to slave owning Southern families before the Civil War should read this book. Eventually Dad emerged from the house and made his good-byes. , Language bit like doing psychoanalysis on myself. The investigation, I decided, would have two parts: first, a hunt through the Balls' slave--owning past and, second, a search for the descendants of Ball slaves. Some of the current descendants are also distant cousins because, as we know, a number of white owners had children by their black slaves. Through the process he found several people who are very likely related to him. While it got a little long at the end, the story closes with Ball standing on a dock in Sierra Leone, where the slaves were shipped by thier African captors to the waiting European slave ships. Like the Ball story, the tale of the Zeringues and the Rowleys is peopled with black and white protagonists (or antagonists). Edward Ball, the descendant of South Carolina slave masters, sets out to trace the lineage of the slaves who lived on his ancestors' plantations. In his later years. Many large slaveholders had numerous plantations and frequently shifted I came across an interview that was done with the author on an old Oprah Winfrey show. As Isaac was losing his sight, Dad said, he used to shave with his eyes closed, Eventually he These ebooks can only be redeemed by recipients in the US. He writes movingly about the treatment of the slaves and about his encounters with their descendants. The ending felt forced. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning families in the South, discovered that his ancestors owned 25 plantations, worked by nearly 4,000 slaves. the Civil War. Business | Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? Dad used to call him Isaac the Confederate to distinguish him from the seven other Isaacs in Ball goes further than any other work I have seen in following the historic trail all the way to Sierra Leone, searching not only for descendants of some freed Ball family slaves who settled there, but for African families whose ancestors were sellers of other Africans. and clearing. When Isaac was born, Limerick plantation, thirty miles north of Charleston, was the largest of the Ball plantations, measuring 4,564 acres. In that book you also had a white writer tracking down the black descendants of someone wronged by the white establishment. After this encounter, the rest of the day's But inwardly the plantations lived on. Edward Ball smashed down the barrier between the history that is spoken of, and the history that is real. Whereas legal systems from Babylonia, Athens, Rome, early Germany, China, and Ethiopia to Islamic societies and Louisiana allowed guarantees by the sellers that slaves would not flee, were free from disease, or had certain skills, no such laws existed in places such as Muscovy. his role in the war, or perhaps he simply could not let go of the lifestyle of slave master. Oddly I first heard of this book while cruising around YouTube one sleepless night. He finished high school in New Orleans and attended Brown University, graduating in 1982 with a B.A. Babylonian, Hebrew, Tibetan-speaking Nepalese Nyinba, Siamese, and American Southern slave owners thought nothing of breaking up both the conjugal unit and the nuclear family. The ruined brick hulk of the rice mill at Comingtee stood within plain shows the ways that slavery lives on in black and white memory and experienceand illuminates the uncertain path to redress. WebSlaves in the Family. BALL FAMILY were embossed. On one porch sat knows how rare that is. 3 Oct 2022. Although our social franchise had shrunk, The papers of numerous slave-owning families were plundered or burned during the Civil War, but the Ball records survived because most of the family plantations were not destroyed by the invading Yankees. I enjoyed this book a great deal. The last letters date from three hundred years later in America, after the rice It does get a little deep in places but there is so much information that I have never read about before. Old Isaac's vision had deteriorated to the extent that he could see only a single point of light. seemed more real since Dad's grandfather and three great-uncles fought for the Confederacy. Please try again. Did the plantations form part of my identity?. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. By the beginning of the Civil War, Isaac's father, William James Ball, controlled seven other rice plantations in addition to Limerick, each with its own black village. The rooms were moldering, the air thick and bacterial. and in-laws owned more land and people. Every morning, I walked to the cobblestone block of Some other people in his family get angry about it, urging him not to do it, and most other people in his family seem content to just tell themselves that their ancestors were nicer than the average slave owner. of which were large folding doors that gave into drawing rooms. From time to time, the "Ball book" came down off the shelf, and when it did the plantations shadowed I went to college and settled in New York, where I began writing for newspapers and magazines. The Ball women stayed closely involved with their parents' home even after they departed for a husband. I, too, come from a southern family, and my ancestors also owned slaves. A few of the Ball family had children with enslaved women, some producing mulatto children who were granted freedom even before the Civil War and emancipation. The park contains a grove of oaks with overhanging moss and an octagonal bandstand, and is framed on two sides by Wambaw Elias fought the patriots and burned their houses until such time as the British lost and his victim called for revenge. Click on the + button and choose the Add M3U URL option. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them. The slave revolt Classifieds | First there were stacks of papers, then boxes and The ballroom on the I wish many descendants of slaves could read this book and know that their distant cousins can indeed experience some of the emotional toll of the diabolical system that harmed so many people--yet inadvertently brought us the many cultural riches that gleam in the American fabric. Every step was an effort.Please don't misunderstand me. This book was recommended to me by a historian. Marketplace, Quick News | Anyone who watches "Who Do You Think You Are?" Because they are slaves, they are incapable of performing civil acts. On the other hand, in a few societies, as in the ancient Middle East, slaves were allowed to contract with third parties. Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app. The authors family were multiple generations of slave owners in the Carolinas early in the founding of this country. A few wrote memoirs or poetry, but the family mainly turned out letters and account books. It is a work about slaves in the family. Site Search | I was able to follow all of the complex genealogy and most of the historical information; it was kind of like a college course for me in the beginning. to be saying that the plantations were a piece of unfinished business. It stood in a row of mansions on Meeting Street, the main avenue through the historic core of Charleston, on the northwest corner where The Ball slaves were easier to define. I highly recommend reading this book,especiallly for white folks,as a major contribution to the attempt to reconcile and heal the scars of Americans' shared racial tragedy. Sadists, even psychopaths, who could not cope with their right of total dominance over another human being, might appear anywhere, as might kindly masters. WebSlave owners considered their slaves more as livestock than humans. In my childhood, our family lived in various small towns and cities in the South. How did they live? Another place where cousins once lived, Mepkin, had been cleared and turned into a Catholic monastery. As I prepared to go back to South Carolina, I thought we should meet, share our recollections, feelings, and dreams, and make the story whole. WebFormer Village Voice columnist Edward Ball takes readers on an unprecedented journey into his family's slave-owning past, telling the story of black and white families who lived side Harrell described the case of Mae Louise Walls Miller, who didn't get her freedom until 1963, when she was about 14. When she married (or, as a widow, remarried) her property rights passed to the man, under the legal doctrine known as coverture. , Enhanced typesetting In his seventies and eighties, with pinhole vision, Isaac continued to get around town and took regular walks with a cane. Over time, his family earned the reputation as "the most prominent of South Carolina plantation owners. There were also one chemist, a priest, a banker, and a fashion model. He attempts to cover a very long time span--going back to 1660--which is both what makes it valuable to students of history and what makes it less accessible to those not already enthralled with the subject. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Additional gift options are available when buying one eBook at a time. family property, and not "theirs," belonging to black families, but a shared history. I learned much about so many things that it is too much to write about. While Ball tries to explain the motives of the slave owners (it boils down to money and power), he certainly does not romanticize plantation life. I was totally impressed by what the author did. Others were freed from three Ball places--Kensington, Pimlico, and St. James--that were sold out of the Our book group discussed this last evening. WebIn general, a slave had far fewer rights to his offspring than to his spouse. It lists the contents of a house near London that once belonged to the Harleston family, relatives of the Balls. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Update your device or payment method, cancel individual pre-orders or your subscription at. and sentimental (how touching the cast of family characters!). Ball is telling these many stories and sharing what others know about the history. out over the water and murmured at our broken heritage. Essential Source to Understand Americas Fractured Identity, Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021. For example, in Qing China a slave was punished one degree more severely than free citizens for offenses against a freeman. (The War Between the States is Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. WebThe thesis of Edward Ball 's book Slaves in the Family is that there is much to be learned from having an honest conversation about the legacy of slavery in the United States but Historians call them the "Ball Family Papers," more than ten thousand pages housed in four libraries. WebDr. Diversions | I read this book a few years ago as part of an extended multi-week discussion class. Meeting intersects Tradd Street. In Mesopotamia and in Islamic practice the killer of a slave merely had to compensate the owner for the loss of his property. Old papers are beautiful things. an inventory of property from the year 1631. The story of his slave-owning family, part of the weave of his childhood, was a mystery he could only partly decipher. British slave owners family makes public apology in Grenada. Learn more. This is the story of the author's research into his family's past as slave owners and slave traders. Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2021. We have been in each other's Between 1698 and 1865, the 167 years the family was in the slave business, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery to the Balls or bought by them. A distant cousin, long dead, had written the manuscript, and the book was printed in 1909 on rag paper, with a tan binding and green cloth boards. On the way back to Charleston, Dad stayed quiet about George. Behind it, secluded by a high wall, lay a red-tiled patio and a garden, gone to seed since the foreclosure. Built in the 1750s, the three-story house had three drawing rooms, five bedrooms, five baths, a kitchen, a ballroom, a library, an attic, a basement, and forty-eight windows--and was now entirely empty. Absolutely fascinating and god-awful tragic. Dad directed Ted and me to stay in the car, and I seem to remember that he wore a strained look on his face as he walked across the grass, up the three wooden steps of the porch, to shake hands with frail, black George. it was unbottled, and the paper as blotchy as an English cheek. In childhood, I remember feeling an intangible sense of worth that might be linked to the old days. in face of competition from Louisiana and Asia. One of my favorite parts was an aside--"The Curse of the Buzzard Wing", about the spendthrift second wife of one of the Balls and her equally troublesome progeny. There are traces of that attitude in the reviews that complain that Ball is too "angsty," that he shouldn't feel guilty, but one of the strengths of this book is that he confronts how the legacy of slavery and 'white supremacy' has held families back even today. the rice banks. There was considerable variability among societies in the law of slave transactions. The book had a wordy title, Recollections one cousin joked. Weather | There was more uniformity across systems regarding legal relationships between slave owners. Despite my having left the South, the plantation past was etched in my unconscious. My brother, Ted, and of the Ball Family of South Carolina and the Comingtee Plantation. The house was roughly square, the brick walls two feet thick, Their children and grandchildren were Ball cousins, in the same family realm, and ties thinned slowly. I read this book during a vacation in Hawaii; I found it so compelling I couldn't put it down.This book is an example of a trend in history writing by journalists that weds the personal style of "new journalism" with serious historical research. Zehringer's grandfather had come to Louisiana in 1720 from Franconia, a section of Bavaria; later the family changed Slavery traders tried to cheat Africans with impure Cornish copper, says study. I've got Balls in my line. It's taken me a little under a month to finish. "Did I ever tell you about Wambaw Elias Ball?" the plantations shadowed my dreams. '", Due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download, ] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest. , ' is the author of several nonfiction books, including, , about the birth of moving pictures in California, and. During the 1750s, my decaying new home was fresh, and included the main dwelling, a carriage house, and various outbuildings. He has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public Librarys Cullman Center. The purpose of the event, as announced by its septuagenarian organizers, was to convey the plantation story to the younger generations. It makes us think twice before we judge men like Thomas Jefferson, for being with a slave. Its a great read on several levels, especially as a detailed historical and genealogical narrative. the normal encouragements of parents who wanted their children to rise. It also helped be better understand the African-American experience. , Sticky notes The prospect of the family reunion pushed me, finally, to come to terms with it. 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. Oral tradition suffers from scarcity and omission. around. stood against the curb to hold the thing in the air. In the Ball family, the tale of Wambaw Elias and his slaves passed as a children's story. : Author, Edward Ball, takes on a monumental task of tracing not only the roots of his slave-owning family, but also those of the slaves. is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author. I bought this book in Charleston at the gift store in the Aiken house. It is written, in my opinion, like a documentary, not a story. : At the other extreme, in the American South material conditions were sufficiently favourable to provide comparative comfort for both masters and slaves. Ball follows the stories of these people over many years as the families dispersed. twenty of them along the Cooper River, north of Charleston. selective over time. How Many of the Signers of the U.S. Constitution Were Enslavers? the spelling of its name to Zeringue, the better to glide through the French-speaking caste of Louisiana slave owners. WebOpen the settings menu. Today, some 100,000 Americans have among their ancestors one or more people once enslaved by the Ball family. Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. But a handful of the old Ball houses remained. Our ancestors did not keep the kind of records his family did, or if some did they were lost. When I was a child, Dad used to tell stories about our ancestors, the rice planters. Page One Plus | Some signed a prenuptial agreement Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. As the first event in the Ball reunion fell apart, we clambered off the deck into the motorboats in twos and threes. This property has been passed down, and it has remained in my family for over four generations The land that weve inherited has kept my family together through generations, which is not typical for a lot of Black American families. Let's just get on with it. '", Powerful. The New York Times Book ReviewGripping. The Boston GlobeBrilliant. The New YorkerA landmark book. San Francisco ChronicleEveryone should read and learn from this luminous book[Slaves in the Family] is not only honest in its scrupulous reporting but also personal narrative at its finest. San Francisco ChronicleOutside Faulkner, it will be hard to find a more poignant, powerful account of a white man struggling with his and his nation's past. The Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionMuch more than bare historyIt's the human encounters, and the live, breathing juxtaposition of past and present, that give [Edward Ball's] book its vibrancy and importance. Detroit Free PressA masterpiece . Photos. The author explores his family origins, dating to his English immigrant ancestors to America and their becoming major planters in South Carolina. The rule of coverture He redeems the practice of history by retrieving the ignored stories of enslaved black people and placing them at the center of our collective story of our nation. Edward Ball has made an important contribution to those fields with this extensively-researched look at plantation life near Charleston, SC. But it is also a large omnium-gatherum of enchanting fireside anecdotes, secrets teased out of reluctant fragments from the remote past, the real lives of blacks and whites whose stories had been lost in the disintegrating churn of time until Edward Ball's patient reconstructions. The Raleigh News & Observer[An] unblinking history not only of [Edward Ball's] ancestors but also of the people they held as slaves . The end result is well worth the work. Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2022. His detailed, meticulous research into his family tree will stand for all people who are descendants of early American settlers. Many wore shorts and T-shirts in the Carolina heat, though a few women turned out in heels and jewelry. his wife, Pam Taylor, came from Louisiana. , Edward Ball, a descendant of Elias Ball, has written a nonfiction American saga. Fafa Demasio. In Muscovy and China, slave owners could sell or will children apart from their parents, but marriages were inviolable. Limerick, Pawley, and Quenby. More determining than the law were the conditions of the society itself. WebM205. I also felt shame about the broken society that had washed up when the tide of slavery receded. Id never heard of this until last year, but then immediately put it on my TBR after reading a review of it from someone I follow, as it sounded really interesting. Needing to know more, he began researching and trying to find the descendants of the slaves his family had owned. Going on this voyage with him offers a fascinating glimpse into our nation's history, and teaches us that here really is no such thing as 'black' or 'white'. He covered his story from both sides of the Ball familyfrom descendants of the slaveowners to descendants of the slaves. The picture showed a whale of a building in Greek Revival style; six two-story columns lined each of the four facades, making twenty-four Doric columns all the way . When the Civil War ended in 1865, the family held many plantations, all of them on the Cooper River: The Blessing, Buck Hall, Cedar Hill, Cherry Hill, Comingtee, Dean Hall, Halidon Hill, Hyde Park, a thin old man wearing a blue workshirt. as honestly as possible what the family had done, I might clear some space around our name, and around us. In some places, the ink is as dark as the day Cheryl B, Insightful, but a Challenging Book to Read, well-written, powerful confrontation with evil and family. Any owner was free to sell husbands from wives, parents from children, and brothers from sisters. Should the federal government pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved people? Reading this book felt like walking through molasses. Among Isaac's pleasures was playing the violin. Op-Ed | tip of a peninsula that forms the oldest part of Charleston, there is a delicate little park called White Point Gardens. ASIN On the spine the words The novel Slaves in the Family for me was a book of discovery, and learning as I was amazed as the author progressed in his research around the US and Africa to speak with people whose ancestors were slaves on his ancestors plantations. someone bought it. WebCh Ch Em Em 2 ly cm hng t giai thoi m nhn Ba Tr v T Nh. The progeny of slaves and the progeny of slave owners are forever linked. Books | Travel, Help/Feedback | Please try your request again later. Ball does an exceptional job unearthing and researching painful parts of his family lore. Enter a name in the Playlist Name field (Example: TV) and delete A few miles up the river lay two old Ball tracts, Kensington Of course, many of his fathers generation do not support this exploration, but many in his own age cohort encourage his work. The engine turned over and we took our seats. In Charleston, I looked for a place to live, hoping to find a room in one of the old Ball houses. He spent far more time relating the history of his white family in America than talking about the people his family once owned. At the same time, the slave business was a crime that had not fully been acknowledged. Brief Summary of Book: Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball Here is a quick description and cover image of book Slaves in the Familywritten by Edward Ballwhich was published in 1998-2-1. the family tree, and because on April 28, 1862, one week after his eighteenth birthday, Isaac joined the South Carolina Militia, First Regiment, Artillery, and went to fight in the War Between the States. Very interesting in understanding where each "side" was coming from. TV-PG. It is impossible for us to understand how anyone could think slavery was acceptable, but apparently it was at the time. by the current, lay submerged in the water, presenting obstacles for boats, and a hull with a draft of more than a couple of feet could easily run aground. The author wished to find out more, not only about his own ancestors but also about the stories and fates of the slaves who lived on the Ball plantations. Some voices surprised me, like one ex-slave's loyal, self-abasing yet sincere letters to his former masters (of which his descendant was embarrassed). WebBetween 1698 and 1865, the 167 years the family was in the slave business, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery to the Balls or bought by them. finally trunks. : Homicide of a slave by a stranger was a revealing test of a societys attitude toward the slave. ''OF making many books there is no end,'' especially of books dealing with the American founders. The wealth created by the slave system was destroyed, and the latter-day Balls had no inheritance from it. International | Some societies had much legislation on this topic, others practically none. The book was well written and I read it within a few days, as I found it difficult to put down. finally possible to calculate the progeny of freed Ball workers. He was known to play Bach New York Today, Copyright 1998 The New York Times Company. It gives insights into the history of plantations in the South and on the complicated, nuanced interpersonal relationships between enslaved people and the families that owned them that Ive never read anywhere else. WebGreen Flake, Hark Lay, and Oscar Crosby, members of the vanguard 1847 pioneer company, were enslaved to Mormon families at the time of their pioneer journey. WebFreeBookNotes found 11 sites with book summaries or analysis of Slaves In The Family. "Slaves in the Family" recounts Edward Ball's painstaking research into the history of his family, the first of whom settled near Charlestion at the end of the 17th century. Part history, part journey, this is the story of black and white families who lived side-by-side for 200 years, and a tale of everyday Americans who face their vexed inheritance together. Which the author is white, but I guess I expected more care with the descriptions, maybe if it was written more recently it would have better better in this sense. "We're spending more time in the rice fields than our ancestors ever did!" Real Estate | Brazil was a sugar-producing nation where slavery would not be abolished until 1888. Legal relationships between slaves and free strangers, Attitudes toward slavery: the matter of race. Across the Mississippi River from New Orleans, in a neighborhood called Westwego, there used to be a sugar estate known as Seven Oaks. Whereas Roman-law societies had elaborate norms on contracts, Muscovy had essentially none. History.com Editors. In Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball recounts his efforts to track down and meet the descendants of his family's slaves. covered with beige stucco that was cracked and chipping away. The book depicts his family as being not the cruelest of slave owners. This is the second time I've read this book and I was as pleased with it this time as the first time. Edward Ball gave us much food for thought and a continued resolve to make freedom a reality for all men, women and children. Similar to KINFOLK, there were so very many people covered that I lost track of who was who, but since it was my second book in this vein, I rolled with it this time and just took each anecdotal history as it came. Services | Redemption links and eBooks cannot be resold. Part history, part journey, this is the story of black and white families who I learned a lot, and then the emotions came--it was hard to fathom some of the events that took place. 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