All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
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Published
New York : Random House, [2021].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Status
Asbury - Adult Non-Fiction
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306.36 2 MIL
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LC Subjects
African American women -- Biography.
African American women -- Family relationships.
Ashley -- (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Middleton, Ruth Jones, -- 1903-1942 -- Family.
Mothers and daughters.
Slaves -- Southern States -- Family relationships -- History -- 19th century.
Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African American women -- Family relationships.
Ashley -- (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Middleton, Ruth Jones, -- 1903-1942 -- Family.
Mothers and daughters.
Slaves -- Southern States -- Family relationships -- History -- 19th century.
Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Published
New York : Random House, [2021].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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.,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Miles, T. (2021). All that she carried: the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake (First edition.). Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Miles, Tiya, 1970-. 2021. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Miles, Tiya, 1970-. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Random House, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Miles, Tiya. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake First edition., Random House, 2021.
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