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African Americans, death, and the new birth of freedom : dying free during the Civil War and Reconstruction /

"In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial ju...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Towle, Ashley, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Series:New studies in Southern history.
Subjects:
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites > Southern States.
African Americans > Death.
African Americans > Southern States > Social life and customs > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Casualties.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Funeral customs and rites.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Battle casualties.
Race relations.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Let's go to buryin'" : African American civilian funerals and cemeteries in freedom
  • "To repose with their comrades" : African Americans and the creation of national cemeteries
  • "The widows and families of the heroic dead" : African American kinship and domestic economy
  • "The invisible army" : African American religious life and death
  • "We are killed all the day long" : testifying and writing about death
  • Conclusion: "In the cold valley and shadow of the South land."