The second installment in our summer series of Virtual Radcliffe Book Talks will feature Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House, 2021). Miles is a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort anchored at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Miles’s reading will be followed by a discussion with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery.
The event will also include an audience Q and A.
This program is presented as part of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort housed at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
Jason Mott, Tiya Miles among the Winners of the 2021 National Book Awards (Los Angeles Times, 11/17/21)
The Layered Histories in Black Family Keepsakes (Harvard Magazine, 7/22/21)
Her Daughter About to Be Sold Away, an Enslaved Mother Carefully Packs Her a Sack (Harvard Gazette, 6/22/21)
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