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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Miles, Tiya, 1970-     Subjects     Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)     Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family.     Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters.     Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.     Women, Black -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Family relationships.     Memory -- United States.     National Book Awards.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Miles, Tiya, 1970-       by title:      All that she carried...       by call number:      LP 306.362082 M643a     Search the Web     Miles, Tiya, 1970-     Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)     Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family.     Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.     Mothers and daughters.     Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.     Women, Black -- Biography.     Women, Black -- Family relationships.     Memory -- United States.     National Book Awards.       MARC Display

All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / Tiya Miles. by Miles, Tiya, 1970- Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2022. Call #: LP 306.362082 M643a Subjects Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)   Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family.   Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.   Mothers and daughters.   Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.   Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.   Women, Black -- Biography.   Women, Black -- Family relationships.   Memory -- United States.   National Book Awards. ISBN:  9781432898403 (large print hc) Alternate title:  Journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  645 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-639). Summary:  "In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. 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 bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish that "It be filled with my Love always." Ruth's sewn words, the reason we remember Ashley's sack today, evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. Now, in this illuminating, deeply moving book inspired by Rose's gift to Ashley, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women's faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives--and the lives of so many women like them--to write a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. The search to uncover this history is part of the story itself. For where the historical record falls short of capturing Rose's, Ashley's, and Ruth's full lives, Miles turns to objects and to art as equally important sources, assembling a chorus of women's and families' stories and critiquing the scant archives that for decades have overlooked so many. The contents of Ashley's sack--a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, "my Love always"--are eloquent evidence of the lives these women lived. As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically unpacks the bag, deepening its emotional resonance and exploring the meanings and significance of everything it contained. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and of love passed down through generations of women against steep odds. It honors the creativity and fierce resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties even when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary ill. of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today"--Publisher. Awards:  Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2021. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Home Delivery - HN Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 306.362082 M643a Adult books Checked out May 03, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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