Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
In the following excerpt from Civil War Places, William A. Blair reads the inscriptions on the headstones in Section 27 of Arlington National Cemetery for insights into the lives of African Americans at Arlington and other plantations in the Upper South before and after the Civil War. Excerpted fro...
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Language: | English |
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Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2019-04-01
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Series: | Southern Spaces |
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Online Access: | https://southernspaces.org/node/43328 |