The Resource All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles
All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles
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The item All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- 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." In this book, a historian 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, the author then follows the paths their lives - and the lives of so many like them - took to develop a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. As she follows Ashley's journey, the writer metaphorically "unpacks" the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781984855015
- Label
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- Title
- All that she carried
- Title remainder
- the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- Statement of responsibility
- Tiya Miles
- Title variation
- Journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- Subject
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- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Family relationships
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Material culture
- African Americans -- Material culture -- South Carolina -- History
- Ashley, (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Enslaved Persons
- Esclaves -- Relations familiales -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Families
- Family Relations
- Femmes esclaves -- Caroline du Sud -- Biographies
- Femmes esclaves -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Heirlooms
- Heirlooms -- South Carolina -- History
- History
- Memory
- Memory -- United States
- Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family
- Mother-daughter relationship
- Mothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters
- Mères et filles
- Noires américaines -- Biographies
- Noires américaines -- Relations familiales
- Noirs américains -- Culture matérielle -- Caroline du Sud -- Histoire
- Objets de famille -- Caroline du Sud -- Histoire
- Slaves -- Family relationships
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- South Carolina
- Southern States
- United States
- Women
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Biography
- Women slaves -- Social conditions
- 1800-1899
- Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography
- African American women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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." In this book, a historian 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, the author then follows the paths their lives - and the lives of so many like them - took to develop a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States. As she follows Ashley's journey, the writer metaphorically "unpacks" the sack, deepening its emotional resonance and revealing the meanings and significance of everything it contained. --
- Assigning source
- From the publisher's description
- Awards note
-
- National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2021.
- Massachusetts Book Awards Winner (Nonfiction), 2022.
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1970-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miles, Tiya
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Ashley
- Middleton, Ruth Jones
- Women slaves
- Mothers and daughters
- Women slaves
- Slaves
- African American women
- African American women
- African Americans
- Heirlooms
- Memory
- Memory
- African Americans
- Women
- Enslaved Persons
- Family Relations
- Femmes esclaves
- Mères et filles
- Femmes esclaves
- Esclaves
- Noires américaines
- Noires américaines
- Noirs américains
- Objets de famille
- Heirlooms
- African Americans
- African American women
- Families
- Memory
- Mothers and daughters
- Slaves
- Women slaves
- Women slaves
- South Carolina
- Southern States
- United States
- Women slaves
- Mother-daughter relationship
- African American women
- African American women
- Label
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-374) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1236902544
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781984855015
- Lccn
- 2020051688
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505, 520, 586
- Other control number
- 40030675898
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1236902544
- Label
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake, Tiya Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-374) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1236902544
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xvii, 385 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781984855015
- Lccn
- 2020051688
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505, 520, 586
- Other control number
- 40030675898
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1236902544
Subject
- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Biography
- African American women -- Family relationships
- African Americans
- African Americans -- Material culture
- African Americans -- Material culture -- South Carolina -- History
- Ashley, (Enslaved person in South Carolina)
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biographies
- Biography
- Enslaved Persons
- Esclaves -- Relations familiales -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Families
- Family Relations
- Femmes esclaves -- Caroline du Sud -- Biographies
- Femmes esclaves -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
- Heirlooms
- Heirlooms -- South Carolina -- History
- History
- Memory
- Memory -- United States
- Middleton, Ruth Jones, 1903-1942 -- Family
- Mother-daughter relationship
- Mothers and daughters
- Mothers and daughters
- Mères et filles
- Noires américaines -- Biographies
- Noires américaines -- Relations familiales
- Noirs américains -- Culture matérielle -- Caroline du Sud -- Histoire
- Objets de famille -- Caroline du Sud -- Histoire
- Slaves -- Family relationships
- Slaves -- Family relationships -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
- South Carolina
- Southern States
- United States
- Women
- Women slaves
- Women slaves -- Biography
- Women slaves -- Social conditions
- 1800-1899
- Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Biography
- African American women
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