| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 194 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville's research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people who are typically underrepresented in historical research but whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our national past. Rainville studied above-ground funerary remains in over 150 historic African American cemeteries to provide an overview of mortuary and funerary practices from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Combining historical, anthropological, and archaeological perspectives, she analyzes documents--such as wills, obituaries, and letters--as well as gravestones and graveside offerings. Rainville's findings shed light on family genealogies, the rise and fall of segregation, and attitudes toward religion and death. 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."--Publisher's Web site. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African American cemeteries -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
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African American cemeteries. |
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African Americans -- Funeral customs and rites. |
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History. |
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Virginia -- Albemarle County. |
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African American cemeteries -- Virginia -- Amherst County -- History.
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Virginia -- Amherst County. |
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African Americans -- Funeral customs and rites -- Virginia -- Albemarle County -- History.
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African Americans -- Funeral customs and rites -- Virginia -- Amherst County -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781306396691 |
| ISBN |
1306396697 (electronic book) |
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9781306396691 (electronic book) |
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9780813935355 (electronic book) |
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0813935350 (electronic book) |
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9780813935348 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0813935342 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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