A review by bookwormmichelle
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles

4.0

This was very interesting and a very worthwhile read. The author takes an artifact--an embroidered sack, passed down through generations from an enslaved woman who gave it to her daughter when she was sold away--and examines it through time. She exhausts the available historical records, which in itself is telling--our scanty historical info on enslaved and newly freed Black people is a disgrace in itself. But then the author poetically adds in so much more--info from lives that were similar in time and place and were recorded, other historical information on slavery, on textiles. It's beautifully done, and emotionally powerful.