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A desolate place for a defiant people : the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp / Daniel O. Sayers.

Sayers, Daniel O., (author.). Society for Historical Archaeology. (Added Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780813060187
  • ISBN: 0813060184
  • ISBN: 9780813061924
  • ISBN: 081306192X
  • Physical Description: xvi, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida : [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject:
Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History.
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.)
Fugitive slave communities.
Maroons.
Archaeology.
Natural history.
United States > Dismal Swamp.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
Genre:
History.

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