Tiya Miles
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Tiya Miles

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Tiya Miles is the author of eight books, including four prize-winning histories of slavery. Her 2021 National Book Award winner, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, was a New York Times bestseller that won eleven historical and literary prizes. Her latest work is Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Her other books include: Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits, The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era, and the novel, The Cherokee Rose. She publishes frequently in national periodicals, and her work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation (“genius award”), the Guggenheim Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and she is currently the Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University.
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    • How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
    • By: Tiya Miles
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-23
    • Language: English
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