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Title All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.
Author Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
Publisher New York : Random House, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Description xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), photographs, portraits ; 22 cm
Edition First Edition.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-371) and index.
Summary "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag--including Rose's message that "It be filled with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. "-- Provided by publisher.
Other edition Online version: Miles, Tiya. All that she carried New York : Random House, [2021] 9781984855008.
Subject Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family.
Enslaved women -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters.
Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Family relationships -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- Biography.
African American women -- Family relationships.
Memory -- United States.
Other title Journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
ISBN 9781984854995
1984854992