Enslaved people interred among white families often got no marked headstones

Evidence

Rose and I got out to look for his headstone—I imagined it to be carved in marble or limestone, like the other family members’. However, we were unable to find anything with Sancho’s name or epitaph written on it. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 491

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete instance of the erasure through which enslaved persons’ graves go unmarked even within the family plot that claims them.