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Author : Ely Samuel Parker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report on the Dismal Swamp Canal, it Cost, Condition, and Resources written by Ely Samuel Parker and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Great Dismal Swamp and Dismal Swamp Canal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bland Simpson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807867063
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal written by Bland Simpson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just below the Tidewater area of Virginia, straddling the North Carolina-Virginia line, lies the Great Dismal Swamp, one of America's most mysterious wilderness areas. The swamp has long drawn adventurers, runaways, and romantics, and while many have tried to conquer it, none has succeeded. In this engaging memoir, Bland Simpson, who grew up near the swamp in North Carolina, blends personal experience, travel narrative, oral history, and natural history to create an intriguing portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people. For this edition, he has added an epilogue discussing developments in the region since 1990.
Author : Paul W. Kirk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp written by Paul W. Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Crosby Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Dismal Swamp Canal written by Alexander Crosby Brown and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356425
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book City of Refuge written by Marcus Peyton Nevius and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Refuge is 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. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert J. Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp written by Hubert J. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434941140
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp in Myth and Legend written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Sayers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813055245
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Desolate Place for a Defiant People written by Daniel Sayers and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Account of the Fresh-water Morasses of the United States, with a Description of the Dismal Swamp District of Virginia and North Carolina written by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert J. Davis
Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company (IL)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Great Dismal Swamp written by Hubert J. Davis and published by Johnson Publishing Company (IL). This book was released on 1981 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calendar of events relating to the Dismal Swamp from 1670-1979, p. 107-112.
Author : Robert Arnold
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections written by Robert Arnold and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond by Robert Arnold are Arnold's affectionate early recollections and present reflections on both Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond as they reside in Virginia. Contents: "DESCRIPTION AND SITUATION OF THE SWAMP—WASHINGTON THE OWNER. 5 II. TO GROW UP AGAIN IN A JUNGLE. 8 III. HEALTHFULNESS AT THE SWAMP. 10 IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE LAKE DISCUSSED. 16 V. THE VISIT OF TOM. MOORE, AS RELATED BY TONY. 20 VI. PORTE CRAYON'S VISIT, INCIDENTS, ETC. 22 VII. MANY CHANGES HAVE TAKEN PLACE. 30 VIII. THE FUTURE FOR THE DISMAL SWAMP. 35 IX. SUFFOLK AND EARLY DAYS. 45 X. ENTERPRISE AND PROSPERITY. 50 XI."
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Albemarle and Chesapeake and Dismal Swamp Canals written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company written by Charles Royster and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European manufactured goods. Moving from the plantations of Virginia and Antigua to the warehouses of London and Glasgow, from the Gold Coast of Africa to the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains, from the iron furnaces of southern Wales to the subscribers' room of Lloyd's of London, Professor Royster gives us the story of the Dismal Swamp Company, a fantastically delusional enterprise that proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. Examining the interconnected lives of the company's partners, Royster reveals a colonial order built on a system of cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt that seems hauntingly familiar. He writes about the many schemers and dreamers (including George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, two William Byrds, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Morris) who failed to amass their desired fortunes, and a few realists (Samuel Gist, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Anthony Bacon) who succeeded, but at the dire expense of others. And we see the breakdown of this culture and the transition to a more democratic, though similar, system after the Revolution. Throughout Royster's narrative we seepossessors possessed by their possessions, slaveholders possessed by slavery, and heirs possessed by litigation. Connecting all their stories are their unceasing efforts to make something substantial out of the insubstantial--chief among them the almost unbelievable delusion that fortunes could bemade from the Dismal Swamp.
Author : Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625859635
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad written by Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrack Minkins and Henry "Box" Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom.
Author : Bland Simpson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838101
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Two Captains from Carolina written by Bland Simpson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Two Captains from Carolina, Bland Simpson twines together the lives of two accomplished nineteenth-century mariners from North Carolina--one African American, one Irish American. Though Moses Grandy (ca. 1791- ca. 1850) and John Newland Maffitt Jr. (1819-1886) never met, their stories bring to vivid life the saga of race and maritime culture in the antebellum and Civil War-era South. With his lyrical prose and inimitable voice, Bland Simpson offers readers a grand tale of the striving human spirit and the great divide that nearly sundered the nation. Grandy, born a slave, captained freight boats on the Dismal Swamp Canal and bought his freedom three times before he finally gained it. He became involved in Boston abolitionism and ultimately appeared before the General Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1843. As a child, Maffitt was sent from his North Carolina home to a northern boarding school, and at thirteen he was appointed midshipman in the U.S. Navy, where he had a distinguished career. After North Carolina seceded from the Union, he enlisted in the Confederate navy and became a legendary blockade runner and raider. Both Grandy and Maffitt made names for themselves as they navigated very different routes through the turbulent waters of antebellum America.
