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If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one.
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"If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one."
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If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though for most of the time on the plantations black people outnumbered whites by a ratio of seven to one. — Edward Ball

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Edward Ball was a Writer from Kingdom of Scotland (1283–1364).

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Who said "If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find…"?
This quote is attributed to Edward Ball, a Writer from Kingdom of Scotland.
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Edward Ball lived from 1283 – 1364.