bNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - iNEW YORK TIMESi BESTSELLER - A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a deeply layered and insightful iThe Washington Posti testament to people who are left out of the archives. pWINNER PENJohn Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, John Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Awardbbrb bbrbONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR iThe Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weeklyi pA history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.--Jill Lepore, author of iThese Truths A History of the United Statesib pIn 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, A