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City of Refuge : Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 /
"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....
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Lurking in swamps, woods, or other obscure places" : petit marronage in eastern Virginia and North Carolina in the eighteenth century
- "Liv'd by himself in the desert about 13 years" : slaves, shingles, and the early companies of the Dismal Swamp
- "Lawless sette of villains" : petit marronage and the competition for space in the turn-of-the-century swamp
- "All delinquents in duty" : petit marronage and the Dismal Swamp Canal
- "To manage the business of the swamp" : the informal slave economy, freedom, and unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
- "Intention of which Negroes was to reach the Dismal Swamp" : the Turner Rebellion, rising abolition, and the Dismal's slave labor camp
- "Slaves in the Dismal Swamp" : abolitionists and the Dismal's extractive economy of slavery
- "From log cabin to the pulpit" : William H. Robinson and the late nineteenth-century legacy of petit marronage.