Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a privat

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In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout t

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