To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death / Suzanne E. Smith.

To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death / Suzanne E. Smith.

9780674054646

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]

©2010

English

In English.

1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 halftones

10.4159/9780674054646 doi

363.7/508996073

For African Americans, death was never simply the end of life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long - and often violent - struggle for racial equality in the twentieth century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living offers a fascinating history of how African American funeral directors have been integral to the fight for freedom.

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