Linda R. (LindaRoseann) reviewed on 4/1/2008

Helpful Score: 2

This book is both a history of America and the Ball family as well as the people who were enslaved by them. It looks into early colonial America and into Africa. It is a rich text and also a voyage of discovery. The author is a descendent the Ball family, one of the oldest rice plantation owning "tribes" of the South. The book documents the author's family and the people who worked for them. Many of the ex-slave family members are now of much higher social and educational strata than the Ball family descendants. Others are the author's blood kin. It is a book to read slowly and examine. Very good.

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