Wealth purchased privileged burial places in Saint-Domingue’s churches

Evidence

Some whites—individuals of importance in the colony, or those rich enough to pay the 3,000-livre charge for this honor—were still buried near the church, in a single tomb built for the purpose. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 51

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Death’s visibility and wealth coexisted at the core of colonial Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 56; Enslavers’ grief and joys were underwritten by wealth extracted from enslaved people — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 60; Enslaved church members built and financed the churches that then excluded them — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 595
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Death’s visibility and wealth coexisted at the core of colonial Saint-Domingue — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 56; Enslavers’ grief and joys were underwritten by wealth extracted from enslaved people — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 60; Enslaved church members built and financed the churches that then excluded them — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 595

Broader Connections

• Enslaved church members built and financed the churches that then excluded them #complicates (0.82) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 595