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Control # 1 2020051688
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20230203142415.0
Fixed Data 8 210202s2021 nyu 001 0ceng
LC Card 10    $a 2020051688
ISBN 20    $a9781984854995$q(hardcover)
ISBN 20    $z9781984855008$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a356405$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-us-sc$an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aE445.S7$bM55 2021
Dewey Class 82 00 $a306.3/620820975$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aMiles, Tiya,$d1970-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aAll that she carried :$bthe journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake /$cTiya Miles.
Title:Varint 246 30 $aJourney of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
Projectd Pub 263    $a2106
Tag 264 264  1 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c2021.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axvii, 385 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:General 500    $aIncludes index.
Note:Content 505    $aIntroduction: 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.
Abstract 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.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWomen slaves$zSouth Carolina$vBiography.
Subj:Pers 600 00 $aAshley$c(Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMothers and daughters.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aWomen slaves$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aSlaves$zSouthern States$xFamily relationships$xHistory$y19th century.
Subj:Pers 600 10 $aMiddleton, Ruth Jones,$d1903-1942$xFamily.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican American women$vBiography.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aAfrican American women$xFamily relationships.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aMemory.
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