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What Funerals Were Really Like In Colonial America

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Looking at funeral customs during the Colonial Era offers us surprising insight into colonial society in general. Here's what it may have been like to witness a funeral in the American colonies.

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Things moved quickly | 0:00
Silent funerals | 1:20
You were hellbound | 2:09
Funeral inviters | 3:09
The coffin relay | 4:06
Intricate headstones | 4:45
Tribal burial customs | 5:47
Things got fancy | 6:50
Puritans objected, of course | 8:00
Funeral gloves | 8:51
More funeral swag | 9:59
Black funeral traditions | 10:58
Race and class | 12:15
Funerary disses | 13:21
Funeral food | 14:30
A run on black fabric | 15:43
Waxing poetic | 16:29
Location, location, location | 17:18
Men v. women | 18:06
Funeral evolution | 19:15

Voiceover By: Tim Bensch

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