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Tiya’s 2024 Year in Books
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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2021
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Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
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2023
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Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
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2024
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The Cherokee Rose
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2015
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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
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2017
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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
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2015
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
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2005
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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
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2010
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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
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The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens & Ghosts by Tiya Miles (2015-04-07)
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I just returned from Ireland where I researched Irish abolitionists and witnessed firsthand the glorious countryside that I had only seen represented in films and novels. This will be a quick Carrying Capacity, a postcard of sorts, drafted under the influence of jet lag.
While I was taking notes, touring abbeys, counting sheep, and (mostly) staying away from social media and news coverage, blips of
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| I dove into Percival Everett’s The Trees this summer because a friend told me I should read it before starting on Everett’s latest, James, which is high on my to-read list. What I found in The Trees surprised me in a good yet tension-filled way. The ...more | |
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“Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“For women, cloth also tended to represent the work of their hands, the female branches of family trees, and notions of the feminine ideal. Passing on a textile, then, symbolized women's ability, creativity, and continuance.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“As one historian of slavery and capitalism concluded: “The number of enslaved migrants who made it from the depths of the cotton and sugar frontiers all the way to the free states probably numbered under a thousand during all the years of slavery. That amounts to one-tenth of 1 percent of all forced migrants.”
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
― All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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