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All That She Carried with Tiya Miles

Join the Bidwell House Museum on June 9th for our first summer lecture of the 2021 season with Historian and Author Tiya Miles.

In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave a sack filled with a few precious items to her daughter, Ashley, as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley’s survival as well. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language—including Rose’s wish that “It be filled with my Love always.” In the illuminating and deeply moving new book, All That She Carried, inspired by Rose’s gift to Ashley, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women’s faint presence in archival records and draws on objects and art, to follow the paths of their lives—and the lives of so many women like them—in a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States.

TIYA MILES is professor of history and Radcliffe Alumnae

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Publishing Perspectives

Harvard’s Tiya Miles wins the Cundill History Prize’s top honor for ‘All That She Carried,’ a 2021 National Book Award winner.

Tiya Miles, winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize, at the award ceremony in Montreal. Image: Cundill History Prize

By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson

MacNeill: ‘The Best of the Historian’s Craft’

At the Cundill History Prize‘s award ceremony this evening at the Windsor Rooms in Montreal, author Tiya Miles has been named the winner for All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsakefrom Penguin Random House.

Miles, the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute–and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard–has previously been awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, and the Heitt Prize in the Humanities. Her book The Dawn of Detroit received the Merle Curti Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the James Bradford

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“In this exemplary history that shows how slavery made early Detroit, Professor Tiya Miles demonstrates that Malcolm X (whose activist father was lynched in Michigan) was right when he insisted that all of the United States is south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Out of careful research, supple prose, deeply humane generosity to her historical subjects, and a knack for uncovering gripping family narratives, Miles has crafted a work from which any reader can learn new things. There is no finer writer among historians than Tiya Miles.”

—Edward Baptist, professor, department of history, Cornell University, and author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

“Extracting seemingly lost lives from sparse records to recover the humanity of people regarded as property, Tiya Miles exposes the tenacity of slavery and forced labor, both black and Indian, in multiethnic and multicultural Detroit during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is an often ugly—but also a revealing and surprising—story.