All That She Carried

A Simple Cotton Sack: A Conversation about African American Women, Trauma, and Resistance (Feb 3, 2022)

Newberry Library

In this installment of our “Conversations at the Newberry” series, scholars Tiya Miles and Megan Sweeney discuss how seemingly simple historical artifacts can reveal the ways that enslaved African American women exercised agency under horrifying constraints and found meaning and beauty amid pain.

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