To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death / Suzanne E. Smith.
2010
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To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death / Suzanne E. Smith.
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9780674054646
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource (288 p.) : 12 halftones
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10.4159/9780674054646 doi
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363.7/508996073
Summary
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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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Abbreviations
Prologue: An Undertaker Like Him
1. From Hush Harbors to Funeral Parlors
2. The Colored Embalmer
3. My Man's an Undertaker
4. A Funeral Hall Is as Good a Place as Any
5. The African American Way of Death
Epilogue: She Has Gone Home
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Abbreviations
Prologue: An Undertaker Like Him
1. From Hush Harbors to Funeral Parlors
2. The Colored Embalmer
3. My Man's an Undertaker
4. A Funeral Hall Is as Good a Place as Any
5. The African American Way of Death
Epilogue: She Has Gone Home
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index