Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation

• Main Author: William A. Blair
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2019-04-01
• Series: Southern Spaces
• Subjects: Memory and Memorial Cultures; Civil War; Slavery; African American History
• Online Access: https://southernspaces.org/node/43328

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 from Civil War Places: Seeing the Conflict through the Eyes of Its Leading Historians edited by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman. Copyright © 2019 by Gary W. Gallagher and J. Matthew Gallman. Photos copyright © 2019 by Will Gallagher. Used by permission of the University of North Carolina Press.