Posted on Feb 7, 2022
'All That She Carried' tells the story of generations of Black women and the love that binds them...
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A simple cotton sack is the subject of a book that's a finalist for the National Book Award.
The “moving and mysterious” object captivated author and historian Tiya Miles, who combed through records and wrote "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake."
A few lines stitched on the bag weave together three women, their lives, their generations, their love and their loss.
The “moving and mysterious” object captivated author and historian Tiya Miles, who combed through records and wrote "All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake."
A few lines stitched on the bag weave together three women, their lives, their generations, their love and their loss.
'All That She Carried' tells the story of generations of Black women and the love that binds them...
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"Miles was able to identify Rose to a “very near best guess argument” along with another anthropologist tracing the family, she says. Going off of little records — often the case with enslaved women in the antebellum period between 1832 and 1860 — they were able to determine Rose and Ashley were likely separated while Rose was enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1850s.
The historical inference is that Rose handed the sack down to her daughter, Ashley, at the auction block or around that time before they were split up."...
"Miles was able to identify Rose to a “very near best guess argument” along with another anthropologist tracing the family, she says. Going off of little records — often the case with enslaved women in the antebellum period between 1832 and 1860 — they were able to determine Rose and Ashley were likely separated while Rose was enslaved in Charleston, South Carolina, in the 1850s.
The historical inference is that Rose handed the sack down to her daughter, Ashley, at the auction block or around that time before they were split up."...
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