A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / Daniel Sayers.

Sayers examines the Great Dismal Swamp's archaeological record from ca. 1600 until the time of the Civil War, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by the thousands of Indigenous Americans, Africa American maroons, free African Americans, enslaved company wor...

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Main Author:	Sayers, Daniel O. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Society for Historical Archaeology
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida : Society for Historical Archaeology, [2014]
Subjects:	Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History. Archaeology > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) Natural history > Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)