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

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I am in awe at how this historiographical feat can at once be so transcendent and deeply grounded. Tiya Miles combines archival research and interdisciplinary theory into a breathtaking story of a seemingly ordinary object and reveals its layers of meaning across time, generations, and iterations of the United States. I am inspired to stretch myself to find as many connections as possible in my own research and remain rooted in love and reparations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail