TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miles,Tiya
TI  - All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake 
SN  - 9781800818217 (pbk.) :
AV  - E445.S7 
U1  - 306.362 MIL 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Ashley,
KW  - Middleton, Ruth Jones,
KW  - Enslaved women
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Enslaved persons
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - History
KW  - African American women
KW  - Memory
KW  - United States
KW  - Society
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - thema
KW  - 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
KW  - History of the Americas
N1  - Originally published: New York: Random House, 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In 1850s South Carolina, Rose, an enslaved woman, faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few items. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. That, in itself, is a story. But it's not the whole story. How does one uncover the lives of people who, in their day, were considered property? Harvard historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward. 'All That She Carried' gives us history as it was lived, a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds
ER  -