num_pages: 389
description: From the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of China: Alive in the Bitter Sea comes the poignant story of how the tradition of white Southern violence and racism has long affected and still haunts one black family. Butterfield follows the Bosket family of Edgefield County, South Carolina, from the days of slavery to the present. Photos.
language: English
title: All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
titlecomplete: All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
genres: Biography, School, Crime, Race, African American, Nonfiction, True Crime, History, Sociology, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1117
places: The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial / Avon