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Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia

Title
Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia / Lynn Rainville.
Author
Rainville, Lynn.
Publication
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2014.

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Description
xviii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
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.
Call Number
Sc E 14-887
ISBN
  • 9780813935348 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813935342 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813935355 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
  • 0813935350 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013017583
  • 40023414227
OCLC
844372944
Author
Rainville, Lynn.
Title
Hidden history : African American cemeteries in central Virginia / Lynn Rainville.
Publisher
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
40023414227
Research Call Number
Sc E 14-887
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