All That She Carried - Tiya Miles with Kameelah Martin 

Tiya Miles’s All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake is a unique record of slavery. It charts the history of a rough cotton bag given by an enslaved woman to her daughter before their enforced separation. Her great-grand-daughter inherited the sack and embroidered it with a few poignant words evoking the family’s story of loss and love. In conversation with Kameelah Martin, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of African American Studies and English at the College of Charleston, she discusses the significance of those resonant words. Recorded November 14, 2021