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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]
©2021

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Description xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.
Subject Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Mothers and daughters.
Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family.
African American women -- Biography.
African American women -- Family relationships.
African Americans -- Material culture -- South Carolina -- History.
Heirlooms -- South Carolina -- History.
Memory -- United States.
Memory -- United States.
Femmes esclaves (CaQQLa)201-0139089 -- Caroline du Sud (CaQQLa)201-0460851 -- Biographies. (CaQQLa)201-0378258
Mères et filles. (CaQQLa)201-0043189
Femmes esclaves (CaQQLa)201-0139089 -- États-Unis (Sud) (CaQQLa)201-0407740 -- Conditions sociales (CaQQLa)201-0376400 -- 19e siècle. (CaQQLa)201-0376400
Esclaves (CaQQLa)201-0006519 -- Relations familiales (CaQQLa)201-0373848 -- États-Unis (Sud) (CaQQLa)201-0407740 -- Histoire (CaQQLa)201-0378908 -- 19e siècle. (CaQQLa)201-0378908
Noires américaines (CaQQLa)201-0077643 -- Biographies. (CaQQLa)201-0378258
Noires américaines (CaQQLa)201-0077643 -- Relations familiales. (CaQQLa)201-0373848
Noirs américains (CaQQLA)201-0068453 -- Culture matérielle (CaQQLa)201-0380567 -- Caroline du Sud (CaQQLa)201-0460851 -- Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888
Objets de famille (CaQQLa)201-0246113 -- Caroline du Sud (CaQQLa)201-0460851 -- Histoire. (CaQQLa)201-0378888
Heirlooms. (OCoLC)fst00954529
African Americans -- Material culture. (OCoLC)fst00799637
African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Memory. (OCoLC)fst01015913
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Slaves -- Family relationships. (OCoLC)fst01120553
Women slaves. (OCoLC)fst01178532
Women slaves -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01178536
South Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204600
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Women slaves -- Biography.
Mother-daughter relationship.
African American women -- Biography.
African American women.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Biography.
Biography (DNLM)D019215
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Biographies. (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519
Added Title Journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
Other Form: Online version: Miles, Tiya. All that she carried. New York : Random House, 2021 9781984855008 (DLC) 2020051689
ISBN 9781984854995 (hardcover)
1984854992 (hardcover)
9781984855015 (paperback)
1984855018 (paperback)
9781984855008 (ebook)
Standard No. 40030675898

 
    
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