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Death in the New World
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Authors: Erik R. Seeman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Reminders of death were everywhere in the New World, from the epidemics that devastated Indian populations and the mortality of slaves working the Caribbean sug
Funerals in Africa
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Mortal Remains
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