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Historian Tiya Miles on how a mother's love outlasted slavery

2024/7/23
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A cotton sack from the time of slavery bears the first names of a mother and her daughter, who was sold at the age of nine. Harvard historian Tiya Miles scours the historical documentary record to discover who these women were and reveals their story of love in her book,* All That She Carried *— winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 20, 2023.