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Author Sayers, Daniel O., author.

Title A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, Indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / Daniel Sayers
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now -- Alienation: a foundational concept -- The architecture of alienation in modern history -- The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860 -- Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological -- Presence in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp: some concluding thoughts
Summary Sayers examines the Great Dismal Swamp's archaeological record from ca. 1600 until the time of the Civil War, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by the thousands of Indigenous Americans, Africa American maroons, free African Americans, enslaved company workers, and outcast Europeans who made the Swamp their home
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Archaeology -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
Natural history -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
Fugitive slave communities -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
Maroons -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Fugitive slave communities
Maroons
Archaeology
Natural history
SUBJECT Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- History
Subject United States -- Dismal Swamp
Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Society for Historical Archaeology.
LC no. 2014020272
ISBN 9780813055244
0813055245
9781322457727
1322457727