All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Name: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
ISBN: 9781984855053

by Tiya Miles

Anisfield-Wolf Book · 2022 · Winner

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Random HouseJune 22, 2021Nonfiction History Biography & MemoirISBN 9781984855053

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction	2022	Winner	“All That She Carried by Tiya Miles won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2022, having previously won the National Book Award.”

About This Book

A cotton sack, stitched with the words of a granddaughter who inherited it from her mother Ashley, who received it from her enslaved mother Rose at the moment of their forced separation. Historian Tiya Miles reconstructs the lives of these three women and the objects that carried their memory across generations. Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Mark Lynton History Prize.

About the Author

Tiya MilesAmerican

Tiya Miles is an American historian and author, a professor at Harvard University and a MacArthur Fellow. She specialises in the histories of Native American peoples and African Americans, and the intersection of those histories. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she studied at Harvard and received her PhD from the University of Minnesota. Read more →