Download or read book Virginia s Dismal Swamp written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia written by Virginia. Division of Parks and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freewater written by Amina Luqman-Dawson and published by Jimmy Patterson. 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.
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.
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:
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:
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp written by Joseph James Shomon and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
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."
Download or read book Hydrology of the Dismal Swamp Virginia North Carolina written by William Francis Lichtler and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on a Botanical Survey of the Dismal Swamp Region Classic Reprint written by Thomas Henry Kearney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on a Botanical Survey of the Dismal Swamp Region During the summer of 1898 a botanical survey of the Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, and of adjacent parts of Virginia and North Carolina, was carried on by this Division. From May to November a great part of the region as defined below was traversed and, as far as possible, carefully explored. The work was pursued in the extensive area bordered on the north by the mouth of Chesapeake Bay and on the south by the lower reaches of the Neuse River. But only that portion of it included in and immediately adjoining the Great Dismal Swamp, especially on the northeast, east, and southeast could be surveyed with any considerable care in the time allotted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Vegetative Change Over a Portion of the Great Dismal Swamp Virginia North Carolina written by L. Scott Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History of the Great Dismal Swamp written by Robert K. Rose and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Cedar of the Dismal Swamp written by Alfred Akerman and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
