"To the Memory of Sweet Infants": Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia
Life in the eighteenth-century Tidewater was set against the grim specter of death. Children were especially vulnerable, perishing with disheartening frequency throughout the century. Yet despite the high rates of child mortality, Tidewater culture underwent a revolution in regard to the eighteent...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31979 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04272009-213906/ |