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Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery : a legacy of freedom
- Title
- Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery : a legacy of freedom / Char McCargo Bah ; edited by Mumini M. Bah.
- Author
- Bah, Char McCargo
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bah, Mumini M.
- Description
- 175 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a cemetery for African Americans. Between 1864 and 1868, more than 1,700 contrabands and freedmen were buried there. For nearly eighty years, the cemetery lay undisturbed and was eventually forgotten. Rediscovered in 1996, it has now been preserved as a monument to the courage and sacrifice of those buried within. Author and researcher Char McCargo Bah recounts the stories of those men and women and the search for their descendants."-- back cover.
- Subjects
- African Americans
- African American families
- Registers of births, etc
- Burial records
- Cemeteries
- African American cemeteries
- Cemeteries > Virginia > Alexandria
- African Americans > Virginia > Alexandria > Genealogy
- African American families > Virginia > Alexandria > History
- History
- Virginia > Alexandria
- Registers of births, etc > Virginia > Alexandria > Sources
- Alexandria (Va.) > Genealogy
- Genealogy
- Burial records > Virginia > Alexandria > Sources
- African American cemeteries > Virginia > Alexandria
- Black author
- Sources
- Genre/Form
- Genealogy.
- History.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword, by Audrey P. Davis -- Foreword, by Frances Norton Burton -- Introduction -- We were waiting on freedom -- Don't forget about me -- We came so far, just to die -- Freedom didn't come easy -- We thanked the President -- We marched with the Yankees -- No more master, no more mistress -- Alexandria Contrabands and Freedmen's cemetery dedication ceremony -- Epilogue. "Call our name".
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1006
- ISBN
- 9781467140010
- 1467140015
- LCCN
- 2018958988
- OCLC
- 1083456308
- Author
- Bah, Char McCargo, author.
- Title
- Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery : a legacy of freedom / Char McCargo Bah ; edited by Mumini M. Bah.
- Publisher
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Bah, Mumini M., editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1006