Ashley’s Sack

How does historian Tiya Miles combat the lack of written historical evidence to construct a story of Black women from the 1850s-1920s?

Topic: All That She Carried Essay Use evidence from All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family’s Keepsake, and you may also use evidence from Through Women’s Eyes: An American History With Documents. Historians of women, especially of enslaved women, have difficulty telling their story due to in large part to […]

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