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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA black family's history stitched on a sack
"This was the 1850s, roughly a decade before Abraham Lincolns Emancipation Proclamation, setting slaves free.
Before mother and daughter were separated, Rose gave Ashley a cotton sack. It contained a tattered dress, three handfuls of pecans and a lock of her hair. Rose told Ashley it was filled with love always.
Ashley never saw her mom again, but she kept the sack. It was handed down through the generations, along with her story, to her granddaughter, Ruth Middleton.
Ruth, a single mom in Philadelphia, stitched her family story into the cloth sack in 1921."
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http://archive.kuow.org/post/slave-mothers-love-56-carefully-stitched-words
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A black family's history stitched on a sack (Original Post)
packman
Oct 2018
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CatMor
(6,212 posts)1. What a amazing find ....
wonderful that it is in the National African American Museum in Washington DC. I would love to see it someday.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)2. This made me cry and think of my grandmother
She saved me emotionally (at least for awhile) from my abusive wretch of a father.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)3. ...
Rhiannon12866
(206,100 posts)4. Beautiful and heart wrenching story...