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04632aam a2200601 i 4500 001 F9C85150DBEF11ECBB8309314FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220525010026 007 tb 008 220107t20222021meua db 000 0ceng 010 $a 2021061558 020 $a 143289840X 020 $a 9781432898403 035 $a (OCoLC)1292531827 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ZPT $d OCLCO $d JBL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usu-- $a n-us--- $a n-usu-- 050 10 $a E445.S7 $b M55 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20220112 082 04 $a 306.3/620820975 $2 23 100 1 $a Miles, Tiya, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a All that she carried : $b the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake / $c Tiya Miles. 246 30 $a Journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a [Waterville, Maine] : $b Thorndike Press a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 645 pages (large print) : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 340 $n large print $2 rda 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish that "It be filled with my Love always." Ruth's sewn words, the reason we remember Ashley's sack today, evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. Now, in this illuminating, deeply moving book inspired by Rose's gift to Ashley, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women's faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives--and the lives of so many women like them--to write a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. The search to uncover this history is part of the story itself. For where the historical record falls short of capturing Rose's, Ashley's, and Ruth's full lives, Miles turns to objects and to art as equally important sources, assembling a chorus of women's and families' stories and critiquing the scant archives that for decades have overlooked so many. The contents of Ashley's sack--a tattered dress, handfuls of pecans, a braid of hair, "my Love always"--are eloquent evidence of the lives these women lived. As she follows Ashley's journey, Miles metaphorically unpacks the bag, deepening its emotional resonance and exploring the meanings and significance of everything it contained. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and of love passed down through generations of women against steep odds. It honors the creativity and fierce resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties even when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Prologue: Emergency packs -- 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 -- Sampler : a note on terms -- Little sack of something : an essay on process. 650 0 $a Women slaves $z South Carolina $v Biography. 600 00 $a Ashley $c (Enslaved person in South Carolina) 650 0 $a Mothers and daughters. 650 0 $a Women slaves $z Southern States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slaves $x History $z Southern States $x History $y 19th century. 600 10 $a Middleton, Ruth Jones, $d 1903-1942 $x Family. 650 0 $a African American women $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women $x Family relationships. 650 0 $a Heirlooms $z South Carolina $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $z South Carolina $x History. 650 0 $a Memory $z United States. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013115.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010033024.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20221006011441.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220722010259.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220630012540.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220525010119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9C85150DBEF11ECBB8309314FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search