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Join a lively book discussion with good conversation and great books. This month's title is "All That She Carried: the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake" by Tiya Miles
Join us on the first Wednesday of each month at 2 pm for conversation and great books.
"All That She Carried: the Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake" by Tiya Miles
"In 1850s South Carolina, just before enslaved nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter, Ruth, embroidered this history on the bag - including Rose's message that "It be filled with my Love always." Historian Tiya Miles carefully follows faint archival traces back to Charleston to find Rose in the kitchen where she may have packed the sack for Ashley. From Rose's last resourceful gift to her daughter, Miles then follows the paths their lives and the lives of so many like them took to write a unique, innovative history of the lived experience of slavery in the United States." - Novelist Plus
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