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

Miles, Tiya 1970- (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781984855015
  • Physical Description: xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
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  • Edition: Random House Trade Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Random House, 2022.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Awards Note:
National Book Award Winner, 2021.

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Subject: Memory
Heirlooms
African American women
Middleton, Ruth Jones 1903-1942
Slaves Family relationships
Mothers and daughters
Women slaves South Carolina
Genre: History.
Biography.

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Altoona Area Public Library 306.36208 MIL (Text) 33240004966472 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library 306.362 MIL (Text) 33400001570269 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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