Newsletter Exploring the Material Culture of Death in Enslaved African Cemeteries in Colonial Virginia and South Carolina
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Introduction In colonial America, throughout the Southeast region of the country, an invisible line once existed (Figure 1). With no identified boundaries, that line ran roughly in a southwest direction from the Chesapeake to a point in the Low Country. That line separated two politically, environmentally and socially disparate regions inhabited by culturally distinct yet similar groups of enslaved Africans. When examining the mortuary practices and funerary
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