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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South

The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South

Ball, Edward

Paperback

Biographies General19th Century United States HistoryBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0060505907
ISBN13: 9780060505905
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Nov 5 2002
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.77
Height: 1.07 Width: 5.32 Depth: 7.99
Language: English

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.

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