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Proclaiming respectability across the colour line: headstones of free blacks in St Peter's churchyard, St George's, Bermuda

Bruce S. ElliottDepartment of History, 400 Paterson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6. [email protected]
Pages 197-211 | Published online: 19 Jul 2013

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