Tiya Miles
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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“Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“As one historian of slavery and capitalism concluded: “The number of enslaved migrants who made it from the depths of the cotton and sugar frontiers all the way to the free states probably numbered under a thousand during all the years of slavery. That amounts to one-tenth of 1 percent of all forced migrants.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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