The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s. History · References in literature and art · Research

The largest community of American maroons was in the Great Dismal Swamp, but there were others in the swamps outside New Orleans, in Alabama and elsewhere in ...

This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in ...

This painting is an artist's interpretation of life for Maroons in the Great Dismal Swamp. It shows that the swamp was home to people of all ages and sexes. It ...

3 окт. 2024 г. · Dismal Swamp Maroons organized bands of fighters who fought to dismantle slavery. In several cases, they launched campaigns from the swamp ...

12 июл. 2022 г. · The Great Dismal Swamp also has a history of myth, white colonial fear, and resistance to slavery in the form of world-building Maroon communities.

11 окт. 2022 г. · The runaways became known as “Maroons,” and their numbers increased well into the thousands, attracting other enslaved people. Some Maroons ...

The maroons went to great lengths to keep their communities hidden, even taking different routes back to their islands every day so that no one could trace ...

In the Great Dismal Swamp's Maroon people we have an essentially Stone Age culture existing in absolute self-reliance and isolation on the heavily populated ...