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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake /

"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 fill...

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Main Authors: Miles, Tiya, 1970-
Published: Random House,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2021]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Ashley > (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Middleton, Ruth Jones, > 1903-1942 > Family.
Women slaves > South Carolina > Biography.
Mothers and daughters.
Women slaves > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaves > Family relationships > Southern States > History > 19th century.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Family relationships.
African Americans > Material culture > South Carolina > History.
Heirlooms > South Carolina > History.
Memory > United States.
Heirlooms.
African Americans > Material culture.
African American women.
Families.
Memory.
Slaves > Family relationships.
Women slaves.
Women slaves > Social conditions.
South Carolina.
Southern States.
United States.
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"--
Carrier Form: xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Awards: National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781984854995
1984854992
9781984855015
1984855018
Index Number: E445
CLC: K712.8
K837.128.5
Call Number: K837.128.5/M643
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.

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