| International Standard Book Number |
9781984855008 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781984854995 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781984855015 (trade paperback)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
306.3/620820975 23
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| Personal Name |
Miles, Tiya, 1970- author.
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| Title Statement |
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake / Tiya Miles.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Random House, [2021]
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| Physical Description |
xvii, 385 p. illustrations ; Softcover 22 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Ashley (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 Family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memory United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers and daughters.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Enslaved women South Carolina Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Enslaved women Southern States Social conditions 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Enslaved persons Southern States Family relationships History 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American women Family relationships.
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
Online version: Miles, Tiya, All that she carried New York : Random House, 2021. 9781984855008 (DLC) 2020051689
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