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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Is Part Of
VCU University Archives
Is Part Of
VCU Theses and Dissertations
Date of Submission
12-13-2023