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

by Marcus P. Nevius

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820361690
• ISBN13: 9780820361697
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"