A review of

All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles • Random House • 2021

The review below was first published in the getAbstract Journal on 21 sept. 2023.
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Identity in a Small Sack

by David Meyer

US National Book Award winner Tiya Miles relates the heartbreaking saga of a young enslaved girl being separated from her mother and sold in pre-Civil War America.

The auction block meant terror for enslaved people in the United States before the Civil War. In this lyrical US National Book Award winner, Tiya Miles – MacArthur Foundation fellow, Harvard professor and author of The Dawn of Detroit – describes how one enslaved mother packed a survival bag for her preteen daughter before an auction severed their connection forever.

All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Identity in a Small Sack

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