2. Why was photographing dead bodies so popular in the 1800s?

Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem strange to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of remembering the dead.

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religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.