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The Great Dismal
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness
Dismal Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: J. Brent Morris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-28 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The 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
City of Refuge
Language: en
Pages: 169
Authors: Marcus Peyton Nevius
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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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 a
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Daniel Sayers
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-25 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

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In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unfo
Freewater
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Amina Luqman-Dawson
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-02-01 - Publisher: Jimmy Patterson

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Winner of the John Newbery Medal Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical mi