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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
To Serve the Living Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Author: Suzanne E. Smith
From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674036215
ISBN-10: 0674036212
Publication Date: 2/25/2010
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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