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It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Black Common Cousins Family Go Out Seek Southern Thing White

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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.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Black Even Evidence Families Find Hard Lives Memoirs Most Outnumbered People Pressed Ratio Read Seven Though Time Whites You

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Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

~Edward Ball

Topics: American American Revolution Away Before Frequent Lot People Revolution Run Slave Were Would

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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.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Act After Apologizing Become Begin Between Descendants Every Families Hundred Meaningless Quickly Slaves Thousand Were Would

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All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.

~Edward Ball

Topics: About Ancestors Ball Carolina Children Family Hear Our Owners Slave South South Carolina Stories Time Us

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Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Africa America Different Mediterranean Rome Slavery Something Than West

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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.

~Edward Ball

Topics: America American Brought Camps Case Conservative Different Different Thing Elsewhere Estimate Existed Hundreds Hundreds Of People Labor Million Million People People Personal Place Put Set Slavery Than Thing Uniqueness Up Very Were Work

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The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.

~Edward Ball

Topics: Electric Fence Like People React Slavery Topic Touch Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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