slaveholders

The author, a descendant of Charleston plantation owner Elias Ball, tells about his experiences attempting to trace the history of his family and the genealogies of the slave families once owned by the Balls.

A collection of contemporary narratives and historical reminiscences which help chronicle the history of slavery in the United States.

Contains a collection of stories from those who were involved in slavery including John Newton, a wealthy white man who became a slave on a lime plantation near Sierra Leone, Frederick Douglass, a self-educated slave who wrote his own autobiography, and William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and founder of the newspaper "Liberator.".

Liberty Fish finds his life influenced not only by his parents but by his grandparents, Carolina slaveholders dedicated to preserving the institution of slavery, a conflict that he struggles to resolve by enlisting during the Civil War.