Monthly book discussion featuring works by African-American authors. You now have the option to attend in-person or on Zoom! Please register and choose your attendance option. Print copies o f the book are available for checkout at the Eola Road Branch Adult Refere nce Desk on the 2nd floor. Email group facilitator Becky Clark at rclark@aurorapubliclibrary.org for more information.
\nBook description: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack\, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
\nIn 1850s South Carolina\, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a cr isis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly\, she pac ked a cotton bag for her with a few items\, and\, soon after\, the nine-ye ar-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later\, Ashley &rsquo\;s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack i n spare\, haunting language. \; Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women&rsquo\;s faint presence in archival records\, and\, where arch ives fall short\, she turns to objects\, art\, and the environment to writ e a singular history of the experience of slavery\, and the uncertain free dom afterward\, in the United States. All That She Carried is a p oignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It ho nors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family tie s when official systems refused to do so\, and it serves as a visionary il lustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today. \;\nhttps://aurora.libnet.info/event/7670888 URL;VALUE=URI:https://aurora.libnet.info/event/7670888 ATTACH:https://static.libnet.info/images/events/aurora/AllThatSheCarried.j pg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR