The Great Dismal Swamp
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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 In Myth And Legend
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language : en
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
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The Great Dismal Swamp
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Author : Hubert J. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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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.
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.
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.
Dred A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp
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Author : Harriet Beecher-Stowe
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2021-07-09
Dred A Tale Of The Great Dismal Swamp written by Harriet Beecher-Stowe and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-09 with Fiction categories.
With a subtitle like "A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp" you would be forgiven for thinking that this book is an antidote to joy, and when on top of that, you discover that Dred is not in fact Dredd - as in Judge Dredd, futuristic cop played by Sylvester Stallone in the 1995 movie of the same name - vigor and optimism might leave your body entirely. But fear not, somebody left the Stowe on after "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and Harriet is back with a vengeance. The Great Dismal Swamp was a swamp in Virginia inhabited by thousands of escaped slaves for about 150 years in 18th and 19th century, one of whom is the titular character, Dred, an outspoken revolutionary. The story, however, is Nina Gordon's – the heiress of a failing plantation, her idealistic, liberal husband and their humane relationship with their slaves. In some circles touted as superior to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", "Dred" is a slow-burning drama full of engaging characters sprinkled with the writer's abolitionist viewpoints. A solid pick if you had preferred Uncle Tom to have been more of a Malcolm X. A thorn in the angry eyes of American slave owners, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an American author and ardent abolitionist. Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) became one of the most famous literary attacks on slavery at the time. The novel was also turned into a play and adapted to the movie screen more than once. The latest version from 1987 features Samuel L. Jackson, one of the most popular actors of his generation. Stowe also wrote numerous travel memoirs, letters, articles, and short stories – all crucial to the depiction of the injustice of African Americans we still hear about today.
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
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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:
Release Date : 1856
Dred 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 1856 with categories.
