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082	0	0	_a306.3/620820975 _223
100	1		_aMiles, Tiya, _d1970-
245	1	0	_aAll that she carried : _bthe journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake / _cTiya Miles.
246	3	0	_aJourney of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2021.
264		1	_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c2021.
300			_axvii, 385 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aAshley -- Ruth Jones Middleton.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aAshley _c(Enslaved person in South Carolina)
600	1	0	_aMiddleton, Ruth Jones, _d1903-1942 _xFamily.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _xFamily relationships.
650		0	_aFamilies.
650		0	_aMemory _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMothers and daughters.
650		0	_aSlaves _zSouthern States _xFamily relationships _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zSouth Carolina _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen slaves _zSouthern States _xSocial conditions _y19th century.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft.
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