The Sweet Hell Inside

The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South

By: Edward Ball

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Paperback | 5 November 2002

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432 Pages

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From National Book Award winner Edward Ball comes The Sweet Hell Inside, the story of the fascinating Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave, who cast off their blemished roots and prospered despite racial barriers. Enhanced by recollections from the family's archivist, eighty-four-year-old Edwina Harleston Whitlock -- whose bloodline the author shares. The Sweet Hell Inside features a celebrated portrait artist whose subjects included industrialist Pierre du Pont; a black classical composer in the Lost Generation of 1920s Paris; and an orphanage founder who created the famous Jenkins Orphanage Band, a definitive force in the development of ragtime and jazz.

With evocative and engrossing storytelling, Edward Ball introduces a cast of historical characters rarely seen before: cultured, vain, imperfect, rich, and black -- a family of eccentrics who defied social convention and flourished.

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"Impressively researched and fascinatingly told" -- The State (Columbia, SC) One of the top ten nonfiction books of 2001 -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Thoroughly engrossing.Ball's earlier book, Slaves in the Family, earned him a National Book Award. This one is even better." -- Seattle Times "Thoroughly engrossing...Ball's earlier book, Slaves in the Family, earned him a National Book Award. This one is even better."--Seattle Times "Excellent (and highly readable)...an absorbing story"--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Impressively researched and fascinatingly told"--The State (Columbia, SC) "Ball is a graceful storyteller, deftly weaving individual experience into social and historical trends."--O Magazine One of the top ten nonfiction books of 2001--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Ball is a graceful storyteller, deftly weaving individual experience into social and historical trends. --O Magazine" Excellent (and highly readable)...an absorbing story --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" Impressively researched and fascinatingly told --The State (Columbia, SC)" Thoroughly engrossing Ball s earlier book, Slaves in the Family, earned him a National Book Award. This one is even better. --Seattle Times" A striking contribution, filling in some important gaps in America s often uneasy racial dialogue...Ball has done a masterful job.--Washington Post Book World" "A striking contribution, filling in some important gaps in America's often uneasy racial dialogue...Ball has done a masterful job.--Washington Post Book World

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