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A Material Sentimentality: Exploring Childhood Via the Death Event at Freedman’s Cemetery, Dallas, Texas (1869-1907) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study explores childhood through materiality and the death event, focusing on the sentimentalization of children through funerary elaboration, the dressing of the corpse, and the inclusion of material objects in the grave. Specifically, I will explore the burial contexts of children (ages 0-15) from the 19th and early 20th...