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Dismal freedom : a history of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
- Title
- Dismal freedom : a history of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp / J. Brent Morris.
- Author
- Morris, J. Brent
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- 244 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- Maroons > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History
- Fugitive slaves > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History
- Fugitive slave communities > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History
- Free Black people > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History
- Free Black people
- Fugitive slave communities
- Fugitive slaves
- Maroons
- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History
- United States > Dismal Swamp
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-224) and index.
- Contents
- The origins of Dismal Swamp maroonage -- Dismal Swamp maroons in the colonial era -- North American maroon wars, 1775-1831 -- Maroon life in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Dismal Swamp marronage triumphant -- Epilogue: From dismal freedom to the free dismal.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-3505
- ISBN
- 9781469668253
- 1469668254
- LCCN
- 2021054810
- OCLC
- 1266896034
- Author
- Morris, J. Brent, author.
- Title
- Dismal freedom : a history of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp / J. Brent Morris.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-224) and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781469668277
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-3505