Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

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

29 reviews

libkatem's review

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

Tiya Miles is the best. No one approaches history quite like her. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Slavery, and Racism

It's a book about ties that bind, against all odds.

kerri_m's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Part object study, part social history, Miles masterfully applies historical records and extant evidence to support a constructed look at the potential lives of the three women we see a glimpse of in Ashley's Sack. I think it would capture public interest and academics equally. The book, or at least the introduction and ending essays, should be required reading for every archival student and researcher.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Racism, and Sexual violence

singout's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

A beautiful and detailed rendering of how a sack, recently discovered in an auction, was found to have been embroidered by a Black woman who named the contents that has been given to  her grandmother as an enslaved child, with her grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s first names. The analysis of the significance of all the continents, along with the contextualization of them in Black American history, is a very well done. It does move a bit slowly at with perhaps more detail or sidetracking than some would like.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Child abuse

atamano's review

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Slavery, and Violence

book_fish's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book is like a museum talk by a really smart professor. Lot of cool info, but definitely wordy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Slavery

ortizzyy's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

willowblack09's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Racism, Sexual assault, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and Classism

antonique_reads's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Child abuse, and Sexual assault

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Slavery

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