City Of Refuge: Slavery And Petit Marronage In The Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 - 9780820361697

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.

• | By (Author): Marcus P. Nevius
• | Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 15, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 168 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0820361690
• | ISBN-13: 9780820361697