LouisvilleReads | Ep 27 | All That She Carried (2021) | Tiya Miles | 2-23-22

Episode #27 of LouisvilleReads! Reviewing 2021 National Book Awards winner for Nonfiction Tiya Miles 'Ashley's Sack'. Now located in the Smithsonian, a simple linen sack once passed on a mid-19th century slave auction block between mother and daughter takes on deeper (and multiple meanings) as Harvard historian Dr. Tiya Miles moves archaeology and anthropology past Eurocentric perspectives and into the perspective of a people once counted as items themselves. What scant historical evidence exists from pre-Civil War Black America becomes a tangible representation of that community's most intangible quality: Love. Interview with the author on the back half!