Book Suggestion: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashleys Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language.
Book Suggestion: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashleys Sack, a Black Family Keepsake: In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed… #Rivers #1850sSouth #Carolinaenslaved #enslavedwoman #womannamed
