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SUMMARY:Meet Author Tiya Miles
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DESCRIPTION:In her newest book\, inspired by a rough cotton bag and the em
 broidered words upon it\, Dr. Tiya Miles traces the lives of three generat
 ions of Black women from slavery to a life of uncertain freedom..\nhttps:/
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Renowned historian Dr. Tiya Miles will joi
 n us to share the true story that influenced her newly released non-fictio
 n book <em>All That She Carried\, The Journey of Ashley's Sack\, a Black F
 amily Keepsake</em>.&nbsp\; Ashley's sack currently resides in a display c
 ase located at Middleton Place Museum in South Carolina.</p>\n<p>The story
  of the rough cotton sack began in 1850's South Carolina\, when an enslave
 d woman named Rose\, gave this sack to her daughter Ashley as a token of h
 er love and hope for Ashley's survival.&nbsp\; Not long afterwards\, nine-
 year-old Ashley was sold and separated from her mother.&nbsp\; Many years 
 later\, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered the sack as a way of summa
 rizing the family's history.</p>\n<p>Dr. Miles will introduce her book and
  share the story of how she uncovered the history of Rose's\, Ashley's\, a
 nd Ruth's lives. She will reveal the contents of Ashley's sack and the sig
 nificance and meaning of what it held.&nbsp\; Dr. Miles is currently a Pro
 fessor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.</
 p>\n<p>Register with an email address to receive a link to join the online
  event.</p>\n<p><em>If you require an ASL interpreter or other accommodati
 on for this event\, please contact us at <a href="mailto:virtualservices@s
 tmalib.org">virtualservices@stmalib.org</a>&nbsp\;with as much notice as p
 ossible\, but no later than five business days before the event date.</em>
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