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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

What can one cloth sack, packed by an enslaved mother for her daughter, tell us about lives that official records left out?

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Author
Tiya Miles

Why read it

  • You will learn to read ordinary objects as evidence of lives the archives ignored
  • You will see how families pass memory down through objects and spoken stories when little is written
  • You will think differently about what enslaved parents did to protect their children

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants history told through one family
  • Someone tracing a family's lost stories and keepsakes
  • A teacher looking for new ways to teach slavery

Contents

  1. PROLOGUE:
  2. EMERGENCY PACKS
  3. INTRODUCTION LOVE’S PRACTITIONERS
  4. STORY CLOTHS
  5. ASHLEY’S SACK AS ARCHIVE
  6. MAKING LOVE
  7. RUTH’S RECORD
  8. THE DAZZLING SACK CLOTH
  9. WHITE RICE, BLACK BODIES
  10. SEARCHING FOR ROSE
  11. A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME
  12. ALL THE FORMS OF BUSINESS
  13. PAINED BY THE RETROSPECT
  14. PACKING THE SACK
  15. A SADDER LOVE
  16. OBJECTS EMPOWERED
  17. BINDING TIES
  18. ROSE’S INVENTORY
  19. THE LANGUAGE OF DRESS
  20. RAIMENT ROLLED IN BLOOD
  21. THE AUCTION BLOCK
  22. MANSIONS IN HELL
  23. SAYING HER NAME
  24. ASHLEY’S SEEDS
  25. THREE HANDFULS OF PECANS
  26. METHODS OF FORCING
  27. SURVIVAL FOODS
  28. NEVER ALONE PECAN RECIPES
  29. Pecan Pie
  30. Old Regional Recipes for Thanksgiving Pies: Pecan Pie
  31. Pecan Crisp Cookies
  32. Pecan Wafers
  33. Nut Butter Balls
  34. THE BRIGHT UNSPOOLING
  35. TRACING ASHLEY, ROSA, AND RUTH IN SOUTH CAROLINA
  36. STORYTELLING, SEWING, AND HEALING
  37. MIGRATION, DISRUPTION, AND MEANING-MAKING
  38. SCARLET LETTERS
  39. CONCLUSION IT BE FILLED
  40. Carrying Capacity
  41. Sacking
  42. Quilts
  43. Hair
  44. SAMPLER: A NOTE ON TERMS
  45. LITTLE SACK OF SOMETHING: AN ESSAY ON PROCESS
  46. Ecologies and Rootwork
  47. Traces and Archives
  48. By Tiya Miles

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