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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 25, 2010
Caption:
Alfred’s Grave | Additional Description: To the right of the Jackson’s tomb, note the grave of Alfred Jackson, a former Hermitage enslaved worker. Alfred requested that the ladies’ Hermitage Association bury him next to Jackson’s tomb. The marker reads “Uncle Alfred” because in the late ninetieth centuries, the terms “uncle” and” auntie” were considered a polite way of addressing elderly black people. No longer used today, these terms are now seen as derogatory
Submitted: February 8, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p191987
File Size: 0.123 Megabytes
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