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Hidden History African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia

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As many of these cemeteries are either endangered or already destroyed, the book includes a discussion on the challenges of preservation and how the reader may visit, and help preserve, these valuable cultural assets.

Title Hidden History African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia / Lynn Rainville.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2014
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Extent 1 online resource (pages cm)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014.
National Library system number 997010710197805171
MARC RECORDS
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