Dismal freedom :: a history of the maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp /

"The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave societ...

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1. Verfasser: Morris, J. Brent (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons--people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers--established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. This is the first book to fully examine the lives of these maroons and their struggles for liberation"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469668260
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