Sabine Jell-Bahlsen. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. xiv + 433 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

Carwile, Christey

doi:10.1353/arw.0.0121

Afr. Stud. Rev.

2008

DOI: 10.1353/arw.0.0121

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On Cemetery Hill: The legacy of burials at Clemson University, a public university in the southern USA

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Campbell,

Anderson

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Ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) was used to map anomalies characteristic of unmarked graves on the grounds of the modern Woodland Cemetery on the campus of Clemson University. Hundreds of these anomalies are believed to represent newly discovered unmarked graves belonging to African Americans including enslaved people, convicted laborers, sharecroppers, domestic workers, tenant farmers and wage workers, who contributed to the wealth of the Fort Hill Plantation or to building and maintaining the university. These burials appear to be in an organized arrangement indicating the presence of a burial ground where the graves would have been marked at the time of internment. Analyses of reflections from the bottom of the grave shaft detected horizontal bases as well as possible chambered and vaulted burials, a common vernacular burial type among African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A fewer number of graves showed hyperbolic reflections that can be produced by graves that contain coffins or a large artefact. This may indicate burial practices that changed over time or the status of the interred individual. The estimated length of the grave shaft in GPR grid data suggests that small adults or adolescents made up most of the burials (58%), then adults (28%) and infants and children (13%). In 1924, Woodland Cemetery was developed on Cemetery Hill, which had its first recorded burial in 1837. Plots were then gifted to prominent University leaders, faculty, staff and their families. The unmarked burials were found juxtaposed among these modern graves requiring modification of the current protocol for the operating cemetery to preserve the sacred space and to prevent destruction of these burials. This work affirms ongoing efforts by this public university to address its origins from a plantation and segregation in the American South.

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On Cemetery Hill: The legacy of burials at Clemson University, a public university in the southern USA

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Campbell,

Anderson

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Archaeological Prospection

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Sabine Jell-Bahlsen. The Water Goddess in Igbo Cosmology: Ogbuide of Oguta Lake. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2008. xiv + 433 pp. Photographs. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. Paper.

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