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Author : Charles Frederick Stansbury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lake of the Great Dismal written by Charles Frederick Stansbury and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 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 : 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.
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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 : Paul W. Kirk
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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 : Amina Luqman-Dawson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 031605674X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Freewater written by Amina Luqman-Dawson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Newbery Medal Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving his beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the recesses of the swamp. In this new, free society made up of escaped slaves and some born-free children, Homer cautiously embraces a set of spirited friends, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater, he hatches a plan to return to Southerland plantation, overcome his own cautious nature, and free his mother from enslavement. Loosely based on a little-mined but important piece of history, this is an inspiring and deeply empowering story of survival, love, and courage.
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."
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.
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Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (N.W.R.) Master Plan (NC,VA) written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Great Dismal Swamp and Dismal Swamp Canal written by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 46 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 : 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 : Thomas Moore
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Lalla Rookh written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814760287
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Slavery's Exiles written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.
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.
Author : Hubert J. Davis
Publisher :
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:
