Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia

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1. Original Zion Baptist Church 5 2. Decorated concrete gravestone 7 3. Unusual concrete marker 26 4. Punctured stone 27 5. Egyptian-style obelisk 28 6. Uninscribed obelisks 29 7. Midnight Slave Funeral 58 8. A Plantation Burial 59 9. Inscribed slave gravestone 63 10. African American funeral 68 11. Funeral flowers 69 12. Inscribed gravestone of Katherine Lewis 81 13. Inscribed slave gravestone at Redlands Plantation 86 14. Gravestone of Lafayette Fletcher 111 15. Libation ceremony at the Sweet Briar Plantation Burial Ground 113 16. Graveside artifacts at the Mount Fair Slave Cemetery 122 17. Walnut Level Plantation Cemetery 129 18. Stone memorial at University of Virginia Slave Cemetery 137 19. Kitty Foster Memorial at University of Virginia 138 20. Displaced gravestones at Avoca Slave Cemetery 141 21. Grave of Rev. M. T. Lewis at Daughters of Zion Cemetery 155 Illustrations x Illustrations Maps 1. Thompson Family Cemetery 18 2. Bowles Family Cemetery 90 3. Brown/Carr Family Cemetery 93 4. Burial sites at Mount Fair Plantation Slave Cemetery 120 5. Daughters of Zion Cemetery 153 ...