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All that she carried the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake

"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 n...

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Main Author: Miles, Tiya, 1970- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, 2021.
Subjects:
Women slaves > South Carolina > Biography.
Ashley > (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
Mothers and daughters.
Women slaves > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slaves > Family relationships > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Middleton, Ruth Jones, > 1903-1942 > Family.
African American women > Biography.
African American women > Family relationships.
Memory > United States.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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