Slaves in the Family
Descripción
More than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.
The Ball family hails from South Carolina--Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery under the Balls or were bought by them.
Detalles
Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 544 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Fecha de Publicación | 2014-04-22 |
Dimensiones | 8.2" x 5.5" x 1.3" pulgadas |
Serie | FSG Classics |
Descripción de Edición | Revised |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | No |
Temas | Siglo 17, Siglo 18, Siglo 19, Siglo 20, Afroamericano, Familia, Histórico, Sudeste de EE.UU., Sur |
Acerca del Autor
Ball, Edward
Edward Ball' is the author of several nonfiction books, including The Inventor and the Tycoon, about the birth of moving pictures in California, and Slaves in the Family, an account of his family's history as slaveholders in South Carolina, which received the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has taught at Yale University and has been awarded fellowships by the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard and the New York Public Library's Cullman Center. He is also the recipient of a Public Scholar Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Garantía & Otros
Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
Peso: | 0.581 kg |
SKU: | 9780374534455 |
Publicado en Unimart.com: | 31/10/23 |
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