Are enslaved African Americans buried at Mount Harmon plantation? Space and reflection for national mourning and memorialising

IF 0.7 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Mortality Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1080/13576275.2022.2080541

K. Fletcher

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Are plantations places where visitors can mourn enslaved Africans/African Americans? In this article, the author traces her time as the Historical Consultant on a project centred on a presumed graveyard for enslaved African Americans that brought forth disparate views and understandings on African American mourning and burial spaces. Over the course of the two-year research, what transpired was how the Friends of Mount Harmon (non-profit who took ownership of the property in 1997) grappled to reckon with their identity as a southern plantation and how this identity shaped and ultimately hindered a fuller more complex understanding of a graveyard for enslaved Africans/African Americans. Ultimately, the author describes the process of coming to understand the graveyard that also provided a new narrative of reimaging it as a site of mourning.

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被奴役的非裔美国人埋葬在哈蒙山种植园吗？国家哀悼和纪念的空间和反思

摘要种植园是游客可以悼念被奴役的非洲人/非裔美国人的地方吗？在这篇文章中，作者追溯了她作为一个项目的历史顾问的时间，该项目以一个假定的被奴役的非裔美国人墓地为中心，对非裔美国人的哀悼和埋葬空间提出了不同的观点和理解。在为期两年的研究过程中，哈蒙山之友（非营利组织，于1997年获得该房产的所有权）如何努力思考他们作为南部种植园的身份，以及这种身份如何塑造并最终阻碍了对被奴役的非洲人/非裔美国人墓地的更全面、更复杂的理解。最终，作者描述了理解墓地的过程，这也为将其重新想象为哀悼场所提供了新的叙事。

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Mortality Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies

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1.80

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12.50%

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