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Tells 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. This examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.

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In addition to a careful social history of this untamable land, Nevius has written a thoughtful reflection on the various 'landscapes of slavery' that spread over early America. He directly engages with the perennial problem of archival silence, reading all kinds of documents-tax records, work contracts, company orders-against the grain. In this way he enables at least some of the people who endured "swamp slavery" to tell us how they survived." —J. M. Opal, Journal of Southern History

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      Publisher University of Georgia Press
      Published 30 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780820361697
      978-0820361697
      ISBN-10 0820361690
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      Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery Social groups, communities and identities Not Just Books Stationery

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      Book Synopsis
      Tells 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. This examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.

      Trade Review
      In addition to a careful social history of this untamable land, Nevius has written a thoughtful reflection on the various 'landscapes of slavery' that spread over early America. He directly engages with the perennial problem of archival silence, reading all kinds of documents-tax records, work contracts, company orders-against the grain. In this way he enables at least some of the people who endured "swamp slavery" to tell us how they survived." —J. M. Opal, Journal of Southern History

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