General Discussion

The paragraph didn't mention family separation.
But as soon as I typed this I had to Google the story I partially remembered about a potato sack.
This was embroidered on the sack-

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

Told in just ten lines, Ruth’s embroidered story offers a brief, powerful glimpse into the brutality of child separation under chattel slavery. Her story also prompts strong emotion: When the pouch, now known simply as “Ashley’s sack,” went on view at Middleton Place, a plantation-turned-museum in South Carolina, in 2011, so many onlookers were brought to tears that curators placed a box of tissues nearby, according to a statement.

the artifact will eventually go on display at the International African American Museum in Charleston, which is slated to open in early 2022.