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