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

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

A beautiful and detailed rendering of how a sack, recently discovered in an auction, was found to have been embroidered by a Black woman who named the contents that has been given to  her grandmother as an enslaved child, with her grandmother’s and great-grandmother’s first names. The analysis of the significance of all the continents, along with the contextualization of them in Black American history, is a very well done. It does move a bit slowly at with perhaps more detail or sidetracking than some would like.
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