All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Random House, ©2021Description: xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781984854995
- 1984854992
- 9781984855015
- 1984855018
- Journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- 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
- 306.3/620820975 23
- E445.S7 M55 2021
- E 445 .S7
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Print book for loan | Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection | E445.S7 M55 2021 | 1 | Available | 31794003186815 | ||
Print book for loan | Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) | E445.S7 M55 2021 | Available | 31826003497881 |
"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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.