Hello HISTARCHers:
I'm looking at a 19th-century plantation cemetery
(family plot) that contains both the burials of the
family and the burials of the slaves, and this strikes
me as very unusual.
I can't think of any plantations where the slaves and
the owners are buried together; usually, in my
experience, the family plot is perched on a bluff
overlooking the James River and the slaves are buried
someplace else (at a separate, spatially distinct
location).
Has anyone else run into something like this before?
I know that larger community burial grounds and church
burial grounds will have both, but I was hoping to
find comparative late 18th century or antebellum
plantation examples, similar to this particular site.
Dane Magoon
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