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All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake Book
by Miles, Tiya 1970-
Book | First edition. | Random House, New York : 2021.
  • 5 of 6 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 1 current hold with 6 total copies.
Place Hold
Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Fonthill 306.3620820975 Mil New Book Copy hold / Volume hold In process
Grimsby 306.36208 Mil Non-fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Grimsby 306.36208 Mil Non-fiction Copy hold Available
Niagara-on-the-Lake 5187 MIL Adult New Non-Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Rittenhouse - Vineland 306.3620820975 Mil Non-Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Thorold 303.36208 MILES Nonfiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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"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"--
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  • ISBN: 9781984855015
  • ISBN: 9781984854995
  • Physical Description: xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmprint
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, 2021.
  • Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: love's practitioners -- Ruth's record -- Searching for Rose -- Packing the sack -- Rose's inventory -- The auction block -- Ashley's seeds -- The bright unspooling -- Conclusion: it be filled.
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