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All She Carried: Ashley's Bag and the Slavery It Witnessed
All She Carried: Ashley's Bag and the Slavery It Witnessed
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2021 National Book Award Nonfiction Winners "The New York Times", "The Boston Globe", "The Atlantic", "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution", "Kix Reviews" Annual Book Selection "The Washington Post", "Publishing People Weekly's Top Ten Best Books of the Year
From slavery, the Civil War, to World War I;
From southern estates and cotton fields to northern boom cities;
Cloth bags transcend eras, boundaries and ideas,
Use inheritance to witness the drastic changes in the country that are causing collective dizziness.
From slavery, the Civil War, to World War I;
From southern estates and cotton fields to northern boom cities;
Cloth bags transcend eras, boundaries and ideas,
Use inheritance to witness the drastic changes in the country that are causing collective dizziness.
National Book Award review: "Myers's beautiful prose describes the things Rose gave her forever lost daughter, telling us the narrative, social, and physical history of women's craftsmanship. Confronting Child Trafficking The atrocities of slavery, Myers provides a visual record of love with depth and breadth."
In the 1850s, Rose, a slave woman in South Carolina, faced the most terrible parting in her life: her slave owner died. According to the regulations, her nine-year-old daughter Ashley must be sold to others, and she I know very well that after this separation, we will never see each other again. Even so, Rose still tried her best to pass on her maternal love. When she was leaving, she took a simple cloth bag and put it in a shabby dress, a small handful of walnuts, a bunch of her own braids, and Conveying "my eternal love" personally, she handed the cloth bag to her daughter, and the two never saw each other again.
How should artifacts fill the gaps in the literature?
Can history be faithfully presented when emotions are overflowing?
From ancient times to the present, women have shouldered the responsibility of passing on culture and hope, such as grandma's chest of drawers, mother's coat, aunt's kitchen knife... Utensils have become the basis of inheritance, continuing the deep love from the mother's generation. When this shabby cloth bag left her mother with Ashley, it became her spiritual support. What the cloth bag carried was exactly the symbol of culture, identity and spirituality that Rose carried. The shabby dress symbolizes the slave's struggling self-esteem; a handful of walnuts hides the taste from the matrilineal culture; a handful of braids symbolizes the transmission of blood, and also carries a blessing.
Rose's struggle allowed the bloodline that was originally thought to be interrupted to continue. Ashley passed this treasure from her mother to her granddaughter, Rose's great-granddaughter Ruth, who took charge of the maternal family lineage and embroidered this family story on the cloth bag. This maternal love that spans a hundred years has traveled through the waves of time and space, accompanying three generations of women to witness turbulent history and society, and experience the abyss of no dignity, allowing them to survive in all aspects of body, mind and soul.
When the cruelest slavery system in human history swept across this family, the love between Rose, Ashley and Ruth was not lost in the times. Ashley's cloth bag was passed down, witnessing the sound of cannons and the war for hundreds of years. The gunshots, complaints and cries also witnessed the struggle and survival of three generations of women.
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