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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rainville, Lynn (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites.
African American cemeteries.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
Noirs americains > Rites et ceremonies funeraires > Virginie > Albemarle > Histoire.
Cimetieres noirs americains > Virginie > Albemarle > Histoire.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Amherst County > History.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
African American cemeteries > Virginia > Amherst County > History.
African American cemeteries > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
Virginia > Amherst County.
Virginia > Albemarle County.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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