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Rainville, Lynn.

Hidden history African American cemeteries in central Virginia / [electronic resource] : Lynn Rainville. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: 9780813935355 0813935350

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--History.--Virginia--Amherst County
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--History.--Virginia--Albemarle County
African American cemeteries--History.--Virginia--Amherst County
African American cemeteries--History.--Virginia--Albemarle County

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F232.A3 / R35 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 393.93089/960730755482