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    Title
    All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
    Author
    Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.  
    Publisher:
    Random House,
    Pub date:
    [2021]
    Physical desc:
    xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
    ISBN:
    9781984854995
    Copy info:
    1 copy available in Shelved by call number, A-L 4th Floor, N-Z 3rd Floor.
    1 copy total in all locations.
    • 9781984854995
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      E445 .S7 M55 2021 1 Book Shelved by call number, A-L 4th Floor, N-Z 3rd Floor

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ISBN:
9781984854995
ISBN:
1984854992
ISBN:
9781984855015
ISBN:
1984855018
ISBN:
(ISBN invalid)9781984855008
Personal Author:
Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
Title:
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.
Publication info:
New York : Random House, [2021]
Copyright notice:
©2021
Physical descrip:
xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: Emergency packs -- Introduction: Love's practitioners -- Ruth's record -- Searching for Rose -- Packing the sack -- Rose's inventory -- The auction block -- Ashley's seeds -- The bright unspooling -- Conclusion: It be filled -- Sampler : a note on terms -- Little sack of something : an essay on process.
Summary:
"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... As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically "unpacks" the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained"-- From the publisher's description.
Personal subject:
Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Personal subject:
Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942--Family.
Subject term:
Enslaved women--South Carolina--Biography.
Subject term:
Mothers and daughters.
Subject term:
Enslaved women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
Subject term:
African American women--Family relationships.
Subject term:
Enslaved persons--Family relationships--Southern States--History--19th century.
Subject term:
African American women--Biography.
Subject term:
African Americans--Material culture--South Carolina--History.
Subject term:
Heirlooms--South Carolina--History.
Subject term:
Memory--United States.
Geographic term:
United States.
Geographic term:
South Carolina.
Geographic term:
Southern States.
Genre:
Biography.
Genre:
Biographies. fast (OCoLC)fst01919896
Genre:
History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
Genre:
Biographies. lcgft

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