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Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia Cover Image Book

Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia / Lynn Rainville.

Rainville, Lynn. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813935348
  • ISBN: 0813935342
  • Physical Description: xviii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Charlottesville ; University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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General Note:
Library's copy is signed by author.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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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Subject: African American cemeteries > Virginia > Albemarle County > Genealogy.
African American cemeteries > Virginia > Amherst County > Genealogy.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Albemarle County > History.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Amherst County > History.
Genre: Family histories.

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