A review by minniepauline
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad

4.5

A very difficult read, but necessary. Miles takes a single artifact, an antique sack, and finds a historical record of unfree Black women (and men) inside. It’s both fascinating and absolutely heartbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation