African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom

African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom

Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction

Towle, Ashley

Lexington Books

11/2022

201

Dura

Inglês

9781666905717

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction

Chapter 1 "Let's Go to Buryin'": African American Civilian Funerals and Cemeteries in Freedom

Chapter 2 "To Repose with Their Comrades": African Americans and the Creation of National Cemeteries

Chapter 3 "The Widows and Families of the Heroic Dead": African American Kinship and Domestic Economy

Chapter 4 "The Invisible Army": African American Religious Life and Death

Chapter 5 "We Are Killed All the Day Long": Testifying and Writing About Death

Conclusion "In the Cold Valley and Shadow of the South Land"

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abolition;African American History;African American studies;American history;American studies;Cemeteries;Civil War;civil war history;Funerals;nineteenth century;Reconstruction;slavery;Southern history;US history