Reviews tagging 'War'

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

1 review

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book uses a single object - a bag given to a daughter by her mother - to illustrate the history of the region, the cruelties of slavery and the resilience of Black women. The writing places the bag and its contents in a historical context and then extrapolates on the history of the women associated through the scant archival record and similar narratives by others. I learned a lot from this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Colonisation, Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child death, Death, War, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs