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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
4.12 AVERAGE
664 reviews for:
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
4.12 AVERAGE
challenging
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
I finished this a very long time ago but was telling myself I’d go back and read the notes since it was just that good. Well my kindle has been on airplane mode since I had to return it to Libby and it’s about time I admit to myself I probably won’t get around to it.
However, this book was absolutely stunning and meant to be savored. The beauty of Black women and the things they endured to survive are evident in this work. It follows generations of women after a sack was embroidered telling the story of a mom packing away things for her daughter who was being sold into slavery. This story is heavy but shows so much strength. It’s also about how stories are told and whose stories are told. I highly recommend!
However, this book was absolutely stunning and meant to be savored. The beauty of Black women and the things they endured to survive are evident in this work. It follows generations of women after a sack was embroidered telling the story of a mom packing away things for her daughter who was being sold into slavery. This story is heavy but shows so much strength. It’s also about how stories are told and whose stories are told. I highly recommend!
This book blew me away! I was expecting a historical fiction novel, but instead got an incredibly thoughtful, well-researched account of an actual artifact that tells the story of inter generational love and striving amid conditions of horrific institutionalized crimes against humanity that the US still has not fully acknowledged and reckoned with. To follow the historian’s speculation and fact finding is to immerse you in the lives and families of enslaved people separated from their loved ones and tortured in the name of extravagant white supremacy.
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slow-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
The charitable take is that this is a beautifully written book about the *history* and the *idea* and the *symbolic weight* of Ashley’s sack.
The less charitable take is that it is 99% filler, due to lack of available information about the sack or any of the involved parties (Rose, Ashley, Ruth Middleton). Honestly a real shame that it’s a book and not an article.
The less charitable take is that it is 99% filler, due to lack of available information about the sack or any of the involved parties (Rose, Ashley, Ruth Middleton). Honestly a real shame that it’s a book and not an article.
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery
Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence
challenging
informative
sad
medium-paced