In their work on Parris Island, SC Jim Legg and Chester DePratter noted that only post emancipation graves had surface grave goods. This coincides with what Jodi Barnes and I have been calling the florescence of Gullah Culture - the period after slavery, and before modernity. Dr. DePratter at SCIAA may be able to help you with getting a copy of the report. Carl Steen
Carl Steen
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Contact, Elaine Nichols Curator at the National African Museum, she wrote
the book Lay Down Body
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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:49:48 -0400
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Subject: Fwd: Ritual deposits on African-American graves
I'm under the impression grave goods is a very old tradition but most
responses to this post were stating 20th century roots.
Can you shed some light on it for me?
Ernie
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From: Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Subject: Ritual deposits on African-American graves
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I am working on a burial permit for a somewhat problematical graveyard
containing 60-100 people in Southside VA. The earliest land ownership is in
the 1770's with the last of the family out of the area by 1828. The marked
graves have fieldstone headers and some footers. The presumption is that
they are African-American slaves and descendants who were buried from the
1770's up to a totally unknown date, presumably well after the Civil War
based upon the number of counted burials and the possibility of more that
were not discernible as surface depressions.
Some African-American graveyards have produced what can for once be
correctly termed "ritual" deposits consisting of items placed in memory of
the departed, glassware and other objects.
My question is when this started? The earliest I have seen is solarized
glass on a SC graveyard with objects up to the 1940's when the area became
off-limits due to ownership.
Some of the very much later objects were in trees and some were also
obviously surface deposits which has implications for the top 6 inches of
soil in the graveyard in question.
Any information would be gratefully received.
Thanks,
Lyle Browning, RPA
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