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Author : Waverley Traylor
Publisher : Rosedog Press
ISBN 13 : 9781434997593
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp in Myth and Legend written by Waverley Traylor and published by Rosedog Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434941140
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp in Myth and Legend written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Brent Morris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469668262
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dismal Freedom written by J. Brent Morris and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.
Author : Daniel Sayers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813055245
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Desolate Place for a Defiant People written by Daniel Sayers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356425
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book City of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
Author : Charles A. Mills
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673357
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virginia Legends & Lore written by Charles A. Mills and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the "wild Spanish ponies" of Chincoteague, General Braddock's lost gold, the Mount Vernon Monster and the Richmond Vampire tug at the imagination. Revolutionary War heroes, Annandale's Bunny Man, the enslaved woman who became a Union spy in the White House of the Confederacy and many others left imprints on the Commonwealth of Virginia. Explore secret societies, hidden knowledge and the mysteries of the universe with author Chuck Mills.
Author : Sherman Carmichael
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664633
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysterious Tales of Coastal North Carolina written by Sherman Carmichael and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael ventures into the Tar Heel State to deliver strange and mysterious tales along the coast. Read about shipwrecks such as that of the SS Liberator, which still sits at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Diamond Shoals, and legendary storms like the 1911 Water Spouts, which were described as tornadoes spinning wildly atop the ocean. Find out why the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is said to be haunted by a large black cat. Learn about the origins of Boo Hag, a fiendish creature that sucks the life out of her victims as they sleep at night--a tale that originates from the rich Gullah culture of the Carolinas. Join Carmichael as he contemplates these stories and more from the mysterious side of North Carolina's beloved coastal counties.
Author : Frank Stephenson Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625855923
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book North Carolina Moonshine written by Frank Stephenson Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life. NASCAR emerged from the illegal moonshine tradeas drivers such as Junior Johnson, accustomed to running from the law, moved to the racetrack. A host of colorful characters populated the state's bootlegging arena, like Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, known as the Paul Bunyan of moonshine, and Alvin Sawyer, considered the moonshine king of the Great Dismal Swamp. Some law enforcement played a constant cat-and-mouse game to shut down illegal stills, while some just looked the other way. Authors Frank Stephenson and Barbara Mulder reveal the gritty history of moonshine in the Tar Heel State.
Author : Lynn Rainville
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476671923
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virginia and the Great War written by Lynn Rainville and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles--Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic gardeners. More than 100,000 were drafted--more than 3600 lost their lives. Almost every city and county lost men and women to the war. The author details the state's manifold contributions to the war effort and presents a study of monuments erected after the war.
Author : Albert Reid LeDoux
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020656842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Princess Anne, a Story of the Dismal Swamp written by Albert Reid LeDoux and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the hauntingly beautiful Dismal Swamp of Virginia, Albert Reid Ledoux's "Princess Anne: A Story of the Dismal Swamp and Other Sketches" is a collection of short stories and essays that capture the unique flavor of this historic region. With its vivid descriptions of the landscape and colorful characters, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in Southern history and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
