Burial ground: Plantation

Brooks, C. 2011

‘Enclosing their immortal souls: a survey of two African American cemeteries in Georgetown, South Carolina’, Southeastern Archaeology, 30:1, 176-186.

Fletcher, K. 2023

‘Are enslaved African Americans buried at Mount Harmon plantation? Space and reflection for national mourning and memorialising’, Mortality, 28:3, 510-525.

Graham, S. 2015

‘The plantation community cemetery: reading black and white relationships in the landscape’, Markers, 30, 68-91.

Kraus-Friedburg, C. 2011

‘Across the Pacific: transnational context in the Japanese Plantation Workers’ Cemetery in Pãhala, Hawai’i’, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 15:3, 381-408.

Rainville, L. 2008

‘Social memory and plantation burial grounds, a Virginian example’, African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, 11:1, Article 5.

Rainville, L. 2009

‘Home at last: mortuary commemoration in Virginian slave cemeteries’, Markers 26, 54-83.

Yeoman, E. 2006

‘Je me souviens: about the St. Armand Slave Cemetery, memory, counter-memory and historic trauma’, Topia, 12, 9-24.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract