EAN: 9781800818200

ALL THAT SHE CARRIED - TIYA MILES GEBUNDEN

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'A
remarkable book' - Jennifer Szalai  The New York Times 'A brilliant exercise in historical
excavation and recovery' - Annette Gordon-Reed  author of The Hemingses of Monticello'A history
told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness' - Jill Lepore  author of These Truths: A
History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina  Rose  an enslaved woman  faced a crisis:
the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly  she packed a cotton bag with a few
items. Soon after  the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later
Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare  haunting
language. That  in itself  is a story. But it's not the whole story. How does one uncover the
lives of people who  in their day  were considered property? Harvard historian Tiya Miles
carefully traces these women's faint presence in archival records  and  where archives fall
short  she turns to objects  art  and the environment to write a singular history of the
experience of slavery  and the uncertain freedom afterward. All That She Carried gives us
history as it was lived  a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep
odds.

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