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They Walked and Sleep in Beauty: African Americans and the Rural Cemetery Movement in the Midwest (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of African American cemeteries and burial customs from an archaeological context has been growing more prevalent in the last two decades, but most focus is confined to the search of “Africanisms” in burial practices and the issues concerning the preservation of burial grounds, particularly those belonging to enslaved and...