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Paperback City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856 Book
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ISBN: 0820361690

ISBN13: 9780820361697

City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

(Part of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series)

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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...

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