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Join us for a discussion of "All That She Carried" by Tiya Miles, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for nonfiction.
This program is part of Indiana Humanities’ One State / One Story and invites Hoosiers to engage deeply with a book as part of a statewide conversation. In "All That She Carried", Tiya Miles delves into the history and stories around a sack and its contents given to a daughter by her enslaved mother when they are brutally separated, how the family story is preserved through beautiful embroidery on the sack and how she "carefully unearths these women's faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives". Share how this book encourages us to look at objects to learn more about our past and how those histories form who we are today. Discuss the importance of collecting, researching, and learning about our shared history from these often overlooked objects and voices.
Free copies of the book will be available at the library while supplies last. One State /One Story: All That She Carried is presented by Indiana Humanities in partnership with the Indiana Center for the Book and the Indiana State Library as part of Indiana Humanities’ Advancing Racial Equity Project, supported by Lilly Endowment. This is the first of three programs that will explore these themes: Taking Care of Family Artifacts: From an Object to an Heirloom, June 22 and Black Quilters: Hard Topics, Soft Blows with Dr. Tony Jean Dickerson, July 20.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | History | Book Discussion |
TAGS: | One State One Story | All That She Carried |