Book Discussion With Renowned Historian Tiya A. Miles Headlines November Programming at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is featuring a discussion of renowned historian and Harvard professor Tiya A. Miles’ new book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake. In her latest book, Miles chronicles the story of three generations of Black women through Ashley’s sack, an embroidered cotton bag given to Ashley by her enslaved mother, Rose, before she was separated from her mother and sold during the period of slavery. As she follows the sack’s journey beginning with a visit to the museum where the sack was displayed in 2016, Miles uncovers the lives of those women and compiles the stories of other women and their shared experiences to preserve family ties. Inspired by the museum’s latest exhibition, “ Make Good the Promises: Reconstruction and Its Legacies , ” the museum will host a discussion with Boyd Rutherford...