City of refuge : slavery and petit marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nevius, Marcus P. (Marcus Peyton), 1983- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2020]
Series:	Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Subjects:	Fugitive slaves > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Fugitive slave communities > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Maroons > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Slaves > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

"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.