The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react. Edward Ball More Quotes by Edward Ball More Quotes From Edward Ball 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 slaves act become meaningless 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 us family time children 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 you black time people Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away. Edward Ball american run revolution people It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins. Edward Ball go family black white Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America. Edward Ball africa rome slavery america 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 place slavery work people
