The Great Dismal
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The Great Dismal
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Author : Bland Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2000-11-09
The Great Dismal written by Bland Simpson and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-09 with History categories.
Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to create an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. For this edition, he has added an epilogue discussing developments in the region since 1990.
The Great Dismal Swamp
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Author : Paul W. Kirk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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The Great Dismal Swamp
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Author : Hubert J. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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The Great Dismal Swamp In Myth And Legend
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language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
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City Of Refuge
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Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2020
City Of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) categories.
City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
Dismal Freedom
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Author : J. Brent Morris
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2022-03-28
Dismal Freedom written by J. Brent Morris and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-28 with History categories.
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. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.
Dred A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp
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Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Dred A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with African Americans categories.
Dred
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Author : Stowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
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Dred
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Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-03
Dred written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and has been published by Nabu Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03 with categories.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
A Desolate Place For A Defiant People
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Author : Daniel Sayers
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2014-11-25
A Desolate Place For A Defiant People written by Daniel Sayers and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-25 with Social Science categories.
In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
