'All That She Carried' tells the story of generations of Black women and the love that binds them
It all started with a simple cotton bag.
Historian Tiya Miles talks to host Scott Tong about her book “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.”
Miles tells the story of a simple cotton bag that Rose, an enslaved woman, gave to her daughter, Ashley, who was sold and separated from her mother. Ashley’s granddaughter embroidered this history into the bag, creating something valuable and extraordinary out of an ordinary object.
Book Excerpt: ‘All That She Carried’
By Tiya Miles
Prologue: Emergency Packs
Rose was in existential distress that fateful winter when her would-be earthly master, Robert Martin, passed away. The place: coastal South Carolina; the year: 1852. We do not know Rose’s
