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Edward Ball [0-0] American

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Edward Ball is an American writer, a university instructor and the author of five books of non-fiction, including Slaves in the Family and The Inventor and the Tycoon.

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Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.		101
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.		102
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.		103
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.		104
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.		105
It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.		106
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.		107
There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people were set up in work camps, and hereditary-forced labor was put in place. That's a very different thing than the personal slavery that existed elsewhere.		108

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