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b'In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose packed a sack containing a few precious items for her nine-year-old daughter Ashley. Ashley \\xa7was then separated from her mother and sold, and it\\u2019s likely the two never saw each other again. This heart-wrenching story is embroidered on a tattered cotton sack now held in the Smithsonian\\u2019s National Museum of African American History and Culture. In this episode, Professor Tiya Miles discusses her Cundill prize-shortlisted book on \\u201cAshley\\u2019s sack\\u201d and what it can reveal about women\\u2019s experiences during slavery.\\n \\n(Ad) Tiya Miles is the author of All That She Carried: The History of a Black Family Keepsake, Lost & Found (Penguin Random House, 2021). Buy it now from Amazon:\\nhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/All-That-She-Carried-Keepsake/dp/1984854992/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-Histboty\\n\\nSubscribe to BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed this season and receive a book of your choice worth up to \\xa330* at https://www.buysubscriptions.com/subscribe2022\\nListeners from outside the UK can also subscribe\\n*Book promotion only available for UK residents\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'