'All That She Carried' weaves together generations of Black women
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The Tattered Dress
Clothing and weaving was a way for women to preserve history. People have used clothing across the mile to communicate with one another about social status, about religious beliefs. And so this dress that we know rose packed for ashley, was participating in that kind of rich, deep, complicated cultural communicatione.
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