Carry Me Home

Carry Me Home (HM2JTI)

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N 37° 6.946', W 79° 43.817'

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A slave has died.

As in Africa, mourners keep all-night vigil, chanting loudly and praying. When the next day's work is done, friends of the dead slave gather from surrounding farms. Then the long procession marches out—songs and shouts, drums and torches in the dusk.

The pageantry strikes owners as raucous, pagan, and dangerous—a chance slave conspiracy. But the human need to deal with death prevails most owners to let slaves mourn as they wish.

Friends bear the rough coffin into the forest, long a place of secret meetings, of sanctuary, of paths only known to slaves. A respected slave preaches briefly and mourners throw dirt on the grave. A hymn rises to the hope of reaching in death, if not life, the place "where bondage is never known."
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HM NumberHM2JTI
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Placed ByBooker T. Washington National Monument, National Park Service
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Date Added Thursday, August 22nd, 2019 at 11:01am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17S E 612805 N 4108469
Decimal Degrees37.11576667, -79.73028333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 37° 6.946', W 79° 43.817'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds37° 6' 56.76" N, 79° 43' 49.02" W
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