{"id":20172,"date":"2022-11-28T12:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=220510"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:42:08","slug":"enslavement-separation-survival-the-story-of-ashleys-sack","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/enslavement-separation-survival-the-story-of-ashleys-sack\/","title":{"rendered":"Enslavement, separation & survival: the story of \u201cAshley\u2019s sack\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Ellie Cawthorne\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 28 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose packed a sack containing a few precious items for her nine-year-old daughter Ashley. Ashley was then separated from her mother and sold, and it\u2019s likely the two never saw each other again. This heart-wrenching story is embroidered on a tattered cotton sack now held in the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this episode, Professor Tiya Miles discusses her Cundill prize-shortlisted book on \u201cAshley\u2019s sack\u201d and what it can reveal about women\u2019s experiences during slavery.<\/p>\n\n

Tiya Miles is the author of All That She Carried: The History of a Black Family Keepsake, Lost & Found<\/em> (Penguin Random House, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n