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Edward Ball's new book, The Sweet Hell Inside

Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with National Book award-winning author Edward Ball about his book The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of An Elite Black Family In The Segregated South (Perennial). In it, Ball tells the story of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave, who prospered despite racial barriers.