Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space

The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery

By:

Grace Turner

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Hardback

Series:

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series

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Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly below. This project emerged from archaeological excavations at this site to identify and recover materials associated with the interred before the area was completely developed. The area has been -collected- for decades--both professionally and by interested citizens, and Dr. Turner, a native Bahamian, coupled the results of her research excavations with the collections and archival material, to provide insight into the lives and deaths of the interred.

Author Biography:

Grace Turner is research consultant for the Antiquities, Monuments, and Museums Corporation in Nassau, Bahamas.

Release date Australia

November 21st, 2017

Author

Grace Turner

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

45 black & white illustrations, 5 maps

Pages

176

Series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P.Bullen Series

ISBN-13

9781683400202

Product ID

26789165

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