slaves in the family

It is the chapter one of the book Slaves in The Family. author uses the simple words to tell us a true story about his memory of his family.
In the book, there are many paragraphs that express a very moving emotion from a person who is born in the slave family.

Here are some quotes:
"The plantation heritage was not "ours," like a piece of family property, and not "theirs," belonging to black families, but a shared history. "

"Slave owners rarely became artists. Despite their leisure, they did not paint pictures or perform music apart from recitals at home. They wrote, but only for a few readers. Rather than make art, slave owners collected things. They assembled people, land, and facts about both."

Here is the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/ball-slaves.html

-Reven