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664 reviews for:
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
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The telling of one Black family's intergenerational history through its women, by both a fantastic storyteller and scholar. Ashley's Sack is both a precious object and metaphor, giving Tiya Miles the opportunity to tell the story of the heartbreaking awfulness of pre and post Civil War America and the uncertain years of the early and mid twentieth century. An original, compelling and essential read - brilliant!
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When historical records cannot begin to capture the lost stories of Black family, connection, and love - Ashley's Sack offers an alternative form of history-making. Artifacts like this textile lead the author on a winding documentary journey, exploring different ways Black women have woven their resilience into our world
DNF. Heavily academic. I was hoping for more narrative style. Fascinating and deeply researched, but not what I can read right now.
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Hard to listen to non-fiction and retain the information. Need to try a physical copy
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This book was not what I expected based on the marketing. I thought it was going to be a story about three generations of women in a family, but that was a sub-sub-plot.
The book instead is about different areas of life and topics for enslaved people based on what was written on the historical artifact of the sack.
Because of this the book sometimes felt very disjointed. I tried reading it physically but it felt too much like a textbook which I wasn’t in the mood for. I recommend the audiobook.
This is a book club pick and I do think it brings up lots to discuss.
The book instead is about different areas of life and topics for enslaved people based on what was written on the historical artifact of the sack.
Because of this the book sometimes felt very disjointed. I tried reading it physically but it felt too much like a textbook which I wasn’t in the mood for. I recommend the audiobook.
This is a book club pick and I do think it brings up lots to discuss.
I was hoping this would be more of a personal account of these 3 women but I understand how records and lack of bc of them being slaves makes that not entirely possible. This did however lead to the book feeling like quite a bit of filler info at times. Still very well written, could have been shorter but the audiobook narrator did a great job.
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A really good book that blends history that was spanning generations of one family to a larger U.S. Story. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in material culture because it was an easy read and had an important overall message .