Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia / Lynn Rainville
- Author:
- Rainville, Lynn
- Published:
- Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- 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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- ISBN:
- 9780813935348 (cloth : alk. paper) and 0813935342 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
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