Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries

by Ryan K Smith

Book Overview

This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital.

Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421439271
• ISBN13: 9781421439273
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"