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648 reviews for:
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
4.12 AVERAGE
648 reviews for:
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
4.12 AVERAGE
Read for my neighborhood book club this month. I had seen the sack on display at the NMAAHC years ago and been incredibly moved by it.
What an amazing book. This is a study of an embroidered sack telling the story of the female line of a family which crosses from slavery and the sale of a child away from her mother to the descendants being leading lights in Black organisations in Philadelphia and Boston. Beautifully written, the author delves into the known and the possibles using contemporary sources to illuminate lives that were not considered worthy of recording. It is a beautiful book, although the depth meant it wasn’t a light read and needed concentration. Short-listed for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.
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medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture
Moderate: Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence, War
A creative way to make history come alive using an artifact to connect all kinds of interesting information
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I expected to have the history of the Ashley’s sack, and the family, and loved that part, but wasn’t a fan of the parts that describe lives of people who lived in similar places at the same time as Ashley and her family. During one of the comparison portions, I missed the part when we switched to a compatriot and was very confused for a few minutes
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced