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A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
- Title
- A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / Daniel O. Sayers.
- Author
- Sayers, Daniel O.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida : Society for Historical Archaeology, [2014]
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- Additional Authors
- Society for Historical Archaeology.
- Description
- xvi, 253 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Sayers examines the Great Dismal Swamp's archaeological record from ca. 1600 until the time of the Civil War, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by the thousands of Indigenous Americans, Africa American maroons, free African Americans, enslaved company workers, and outcast Europeans who made the Swamp their home.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
- Contents
- The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now -- Alienation: a foundational concept -- The architecture of alienation in modern history -- The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860 -- Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological -- Presence in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp: some concluding thoughts.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-660
- ISBN
- 9780813060187 (acid free paper)
- 0813060184 (acid free paper)
- LCCN
- 2014020272
- OCLC
- 884630955
- Author
- Sayers, Daniel O., author.
- Title
- A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / Daniel O. Sayers.
- Publisher
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida : Society for Historical Archaeology, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
- Added Author
- Society for Historical Archaeology.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-660