Many visitors walk right past it, but those who read the description tend to stop in their tracks and linger, studying the 150-year-old scrap of fabric. It’s known as “Ashley’s Sack,” and belonged to an enslaved woman named Rose at the Middleton Place rice plantation in Charleston, South Carolina.

sanguinarysanguinity:

My great grandmother Rose
mother of Ashley gave her this sack when
she was sold at age 9 in South Carolina
it held a tattered dress 3 handfulls of
pecans a braid of Roses hair. Told her

It be filled with my Love always

she never saw her again

Ashley is my grandmother
Ruth Middleton
1921