
Slaves in the Family
#531 of 3,809 books · #183 in History
Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1998).
Explores the slave-holding dynasty of Elias Ball, a South Carolina plantation owner, the history of slave uprisings, and the memories of the descendants of those slaves.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- ISBN-13
- 9780374534455
- Genre
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionWonMajor(1998)
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