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Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of

Description: In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia's free black community--and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop's choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the "Lost Cause" in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann's tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop's belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. "Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation" examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.

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Location: Hillsdale, NSW

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EAN: 9781622739653

UPC: 9781622739653

ISBN: 9781622739653

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Item Height: 1.8 cm

Item Length: 22.9 cm

Item Weight: 0.54 kg

Item Width: 15.2 cm

Book Title: Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Restoration, Museum Studies

Publisher: Vernon Press

Publication Year: 2020

Type: Textbook

Author: Emily Williams

Number of Pages: 285 Pages

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