Alexandria's Freedmen's Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540237248ISBN-10:1540237249UPC:9781540237248Book Category:History, Photography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & Themes, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, Regional (see also Travel, AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCSE5BAQS0
At the beginning of the Civil War, Federal troops secured Alexandria as Union territory. Former slaves, called contrabands, poured in to obtain protection from their former masters. Due to overcrowding, mortality rates were high. Authorities seized an undeveloped parcel of land on South Washington Street, and by March 1864, it had been opened as a cemetery for African Americans. Between 1864 and 1868, more than 1,700 contrabands and freedmen were buried there. For nearly eighty years, the cemetery lay undisturbed and was eventually forgotten. Rediscovered in 1996, it has now been preserved as a monument to the courage and sacrifice of those buried within. Author and researcher Char McCargo Bah recounts the stories of those men and women and the search for their descendants.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:History Press Library EditionsISBN-13:9781540237248ISBN-10:1540237249UPC:9781540237248Book Category:History, Photography, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Subjects & Themes, Cultural & Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:State & Local, Regional (see also Travel, AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.44 inchesWeight:0.9Product ID:SCSE5BAQS0
Bah, Char McCargo: - Char McCargo Bah is the CEO/owner of FindingThingsforU, LLC. She is a freelance writer for the Alexandria Gazette, an independent historian, a professional genealogist, a lecturer and a 2014 Living Legend of Alexandria, Virginia. Char has appeared on numerous television interviews with CBS, FOX-5, Comcast and Public Broadcasting Services. She is co-author of African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia: Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century. Mumini M. Bah is editor for FindingThingsforU, LLC.
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