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(0)Tiya Miles
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sitting in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is a rough cotton bag, called 'Ashley's Sack,' embroidered with just a handful of words that evoke a sweeping family story of loss and of love passed down through generations. In 1850s South Carolina, just before nine-year-old Ashley was sold, her mother, Rose, gave her a sack filled with just a few things as a token of her love. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter,...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 172 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Tubman, forced to labor outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned from the land a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense of pride in physical prowess as they trounced the white teams of the 1904 World's Fair. Celebrating women like these who acted on their confidence outdoors, Wild Girls brings new context...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Random House trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Conducting research for her weekly column, Jinx, a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian, travels to Hold House, a Georgia plantation originally owed by Cherokee chief James Hold, to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal, when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century. At Hold House, she meets Ruth, a magazine writer on assignment,...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Most Americans believe that slavery was a creature of the South, and that Northern states and territories provided stops on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. In this paradigm-shifting book, celebrated historian Tiya Miles reveals that slavery was at the heart of the Midwest's iconic city: Detroit. In this richly researched and eye-opening book, Miles has pieced together the experience of the unfree--both native and...