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  All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake First edition.

  Author

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-  

  Publisher:

  Random House,

  Pub date:

  2021.

  Description:

  xvii, 385 pages :

  ISBN:

  1984854992

  Item info:

  3 copies currently available - Libbie Mill Library and Fairfield Area Library.
  

  Number of holds:

  0

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    Fairfield Area Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    306.362 MILES	1	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    Libbie Mill Library
    	Copy	Format	Location
    306.362 MILES	2	Adult book	Adult nonfiction
    	3	Adult book	Adult nonfiction

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  All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake First edition.
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  All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake First edition.
  Miles, Tiya, 1970-
  

  Personal Author:

  Miles, Tiya, 1970-

  Title:

  All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Publication Info:

  New York : Random House, 2021.

  Physical descrip:

  xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

  Contents:

  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.

  Summary:

  "Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called "Ashley's Sack," embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. 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. The contents of the sack--a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, "my Love always"--Speak volumes and open up a window on Rose and Ashley's world. 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. These include the story of enslaved labor's role in the cotton trade and apparel crafts and the rougher cotton "negro cloth" that was left for enslaved people to wear; the role of the pecan in nutrition, survival, and southern culture; the significance of hair to Black women and of locks of hair in the nineteenth century; and an exploration of Black mothers' love and the place of emotion in history"-- Provided by publisher.

  Held by:

  LIBBIEMILL FAAREA

  Personal subject:

  Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)

  Personal subject:

  Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942--Family.

  Subject term:

  African American women--Biography.

  Subject term:

  African American women--Family relationships.

  Subject term:

  Memory--United States.

  Subject term:

  Mothers and daughters.

  Subject term:

  Enslaved persons--Family relationships--Southern States--History--19th century.

  Subject term:

  Enslaved women--South Carolina--Biography.

  Subject term:

  Enslaved women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

  Genre index term:

  Biographies. lcgft