Dismal freedom : a history of the maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp / J. Brent Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, J. Brent, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maroons--Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History.

Maroons.

Fugitive slaves--Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History.

Fugitive slaves.

Fugitive slave communities--Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History.

Fugitive slave communities.

Free Black people--Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History.

Free Black people.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

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 book fully examines the lives of these maroons and their struggles for liberation.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908518-0-2

1-4696-8834-4

979-88-908518-1-9

1-4696-6825-4

OCLC:

1308391661