Dan Sayers, Carolyn Finney, and more describe maroonage in the Dismal Swamp in this documentary: "This film, Landscape of Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp summarizes the three-year archeological field study of the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia and North Carolina, conducted by Prof. Daniel Sayers and his team through a … Continue reading VIDEO/FILM: Landscape and Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp
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AUDIO: The Great Dismal Swamp and African American Maorons
Dan Sayers, Sylviane Diouf, and others discuss maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp: "...But hundreds of years ago, before the Civil War, the dangers of the swamp and its seeming impenetrability actually attracted people to it. The land was so untamed that horses and boats couldn’t enter, and the colonists who were filing into the … Continue reading AUDIO: The Great Dismal Swamp and African American Maorons
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