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This website provides updates on Miles’s career.
This profile page discusses Miles’s background, her other books, and her involvement in movements and programs.
“Her Daughter about to be sold away, an enslaved mother carefully packs her a sack” by Tiya Miles (2021)
This Harvard Gazette article by the author discusses the book and shows an image of the embroidered passage on Asley’s Sack.
“Historically Speaking: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake” (2022)
This is a video interview with Miles for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This video shows an interview with the author from the Charleston Literary Festival.
This interview with Miles from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute discusses some of her craft elements and intended message.
This journal article from Southern Spaces offers a provisional timeline of the sack’s history.
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