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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Price: $9.99
Publisher: Random House : June 2021
Seller ID: 472879
ISBN-13: 9781984854995
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good
A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives. In a display case in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture sits a rough cotton bag, called Ashley's Sack, embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love, passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave this sack filled with a few precious items to her daughter, Ashley, as a token o...
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