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

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.

--Washington Post Book World

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 11/05/2002
ISBN: 9780060505905
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.32w x 1.07d

Review Citations: Commonweal 06/20/2003 pg. 26
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