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All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' – Sunday Times 'A remarkable book'... Read More
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All That She Carried

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful testament to people who are left out of the archives

A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful testament to people who are left out of the archives

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Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2024

'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' – Sunday Times

'A remarkable book' – New York Times

'An extraordinary tale through the generations' – Guardian

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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800818217

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 February 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Profile Books Ltd

Edition: Main

Illustration: b/w integrated; 8pp plate section with colour photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 194.0mm

Height: 126.0mm

Weight: 920g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

Tiya Miles is professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and the Hiett Prize in the Humanities from the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Miles is also the author of the Frederick Douglass Prize-winning The Dawn of Detroit, among other acclaimed books.

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