Summary of Tiya Miles's All That She Carried

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 As a young woman with modest means and few prospects, Ruth Middleton transformed her life by moving north. She took a leap into the unknown as a Black woman in the 1910s, and she was still a teenager at the time.
#2 The sack that Ruth brought to Philadelphia around 1918 was the only definitive primary source detailing the fate of Rose and Ashley. It does not include any sources or facts, only names, one place, and one date.
#3 The story of Rose and Ruth is a prime example of how the past can be recovered if we are willing to search for it. By stitching Rose’s belongings, Ruth was able to recover her life conditions and her act of love.
#4 The sack Ruth Middleton embroidered in the 1920s is a remarkable example of Black matrilineal heritage. It represents a persistent Black matriline, a continuation of radical vision that was impossible given the logic and enforcement of American enslavement.

Sujets

• United States
• 19th century

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669382881
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tiya Miles's All That She Carried
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#1

As a young woman with modest means and few prospects, Ruth Middleton transformed her life by moving north. She took a leap into the unknown as a Black woman in the 1910s, and she was still a teenager at the time.

#2

The sack that Ruth brought to Philadelphia around 1918 was the only definitive primary source detailing the fate of Rose and Ashley. It does not include any sources or facts, only names, one place, and one date.

#3

The story of Rose and Ruth is a prime example of how the past can be recovered if we are willing to search for it. By stitching Rose’s belongings, Ruth was able to recover her life conditions and her act of love.

#4

The sack Ruth Middleton embroidered in the 1920s is a remarkable example of Black matrilineal heritage. It represents a persistent Black matriline, a continuation of radical vision that was impossible given the logic and enforcement of American enslavement.

#5

The Tennessee shopper’s find is an example of what historians have called dazzling things that sometimes show up in ordinary places. The curators had pinned down dates and details of the bag’s construction, but their probe of plantation records led to inconclusive findings about its origins.

#6

The sack was preserved for history through a series of serendipitous connections and occurrences. It was displayed at the Middleton Place plantation from 2007 to 2010 before making a debut in New York City.

#7

The allure of the sack existed in its form as well as its story: the seeming simplicity of a utilitarian object, its function of protection, and its elaboration of a hobbyist’s needle. This bag elicited a sense of sentimentalism that was not present in any other object at Middleton Place or a high-culture antiques show.

#8

The same is true for the sack that held Harriet Powers’s quilt. It was the desire to possess Powers’s art and experience the romance of what it represented on the part of wealthy and connected white women that protected those pieces for posterity.

#9

The sack passed from Rose to Ashley, and from Ashley to Ruth, before it was eventually donated to the Smithsonian. It was a silent testament to the founders’ wrongs of the past, and now the nation can witness it in its virtual temple of public learning, the Smithsonian Institution.

#10

The sack that Ruth embroidered in the 1920s is evidence of a Black matriline with staying power, a triumph that should have been impossible given the conditions and logic of slavery.

#11

The old cotton sack is a synecdoche for American slavery, and Charleston, South Carolina, was the place where this transfiguration took place.

#12

The ancestors of the Middleton family, who owned the land on which the sack was found, contributed to the transformation of what had been Indigenous territory into Carolina, one of the oldest colonial settlements in the southern American mainland.

#13

The system, practice, and logic of slavery seeped into the bones of island residents. Wealthy and middle-class English Barbadians legalized and tightly controlled the theft of labor from people they deemed unworthy of better lives. Violence was a key tool to extract this labor from unwilling, unfree darker-skinned people.

#14

The first wave of immigrants to Carolina from Barbados in the late 1600s brought with them European indentured servants and African people they owned. The original English immigrants scored economically not once but three times through a practice called headright, which assigned them land based on the number of family members they brought with them.

#15

The founding of Carolina was similar to the founding of Barbados, and the English colonists brought their sensibility of race- and class-based human subjection with them. They also brought their Caribbean culture, which blended well with the local Indigenous cultures.

#16

As the English colony of Carolina grew, it began to trade with Native Americans, who provided the settlers with animal hides. This trade eventually drew Native groups into the colonial orbit, weakening other Indigenous nations who did not have as many trade goods to offer.

#17

The Carolina settlers’ appetite for cheap and plentiful labor was reinforced by the Native people’s growing desire for English goods. The settlers purchased Native captives from the Sewees and other proximal tribes.

#18

The settlers in Carolina had a difficult time enslaving the Native Americans they came across, so they began to enslave African Americans instead.