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

"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 societ...

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