Slave burial grounds doubled as gathering sites for Sunday dances

Evidence

It was perhaps these graves that brought slaves to the area for “dances” on Sundays and holidays. Outside the second-largest town in the colony, Port-au-Prince, African slaves were buried in a swampy site also called “Croix bossale.” Animals, however, often disinterred the corpses. … Local officials, worried about the “exhalations” through which the “dead seemed to menace the living and punish them for their disregard for humanity and morality,” established a better-placed cemetery for slaves. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 53

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sunday dances created African communal spaces colonial law struggled to control — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 179
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sunday dances created African communal spaces colonial law struggled to control — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 179