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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F232.A3 R35 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 194 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Subjects
- African American cemeteries
- African Americans > Funeral customs and rites
- African American cemeteries > Virginia > Amherst County > History
- African American cemeteries > Virginia > Albemarle County > History
- Virginia > Albemarle County
- African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Amherst County > History
- Virginia > Amherst County
- History
- African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Virginia > Albemarle County > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780813935348 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813935342 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780813935355 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- 0813935350 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013017583
- 99958568629
- OCLC
- ocn844372944
- SCSB-5745042
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries