Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia /

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"In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville's research are not statesmen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rainville, Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Temas:
African American cemeteries > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
African American cemeteries > Virginia > Amherst County > History.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Amherst County > History.
Cimetières noirs américains > Virginie > Albemarle > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Rites et cérémonies funéraires > Virginie > Albemarle > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American cemeteries
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites
Virginia > Albemarle County
Virginia > Amherst County
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Finding zion
  • Locating and recording the dead
  • The accidental museum : gravestone designs
  • Slave cemeteries and mortuary rituals
  • The network of death : funerals, churches, and burial
  • Societies
  • Lost communities of the dead
  • Gravestone genealogies
  • Connecting communities through their burial grounds
  • Commemorating and preserving historic black cemeteries
  • Cemeteries as classrooms : teaching social history with gravestones
  • Appendix: Gravestone recording forms.

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