Written with the resource of Ball himself, this novel is an emotional portrayal of his life, describing the issues, struggles, and injustices he skilled in some unspecified time in the future of his 5 a long time of slavery.
Charles Ball (1780 - unknown) was an enslaved African-American from Maryland who worked as a cook and sailor.According to his Autobiography his grandfather was a man from a noble African family who was enslaved and brought to Calvert County ...
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.
This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Charles Ball, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well.
FIFTY YEARS IN CHAINS: Or the Life of an American Slave
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
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“Confederate war crimes far exceeded those of the Federals by every measure,” writes George S. Burkhardt, who called attention to it in Confederate Rage, Yankee Wrath.4 Confederate violence in battle was genocidal toward black people, ...
This inspiring story of courage is essential reading for students of American history and African-American studies
In one long account, Ball relates the story of a fellow slave who had been captured in Africa, and we learn of the horrific conditions on slave ships bound for the West.