DOI

https://doi.org/10.25772/ENTR-1N71

Defense Date

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

History

First Advisor

Ryan K. Smith

Second Advisor

Carolyn Eastman

Third Advisor

Catherine Roach

Abstract

This research examines the markers of five burial grounds situated in Hampton County, South Carolina from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These surveys, in tandem with the history of the region, contribute to the burial scholarship of the Southern United States. Hampton County’s burial landscape offers extended understandings of the culture of death in the South Carolina Lowcountry and the markers of the region offer a rich and varied burial landscape that further understandings of rural peoples in the South.

Rights

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VCU University Archives

Is Part Of

VCU Theses and Dissertations

Date of Submission

12-13-2023

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