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289 Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp
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The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land speculators the chance to profit and enslaved men and women a chance for freedom in colonial British America and the early United States.
Marcus Nevius, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island and author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856, has offered to guide us into and through the Great Dismal Swamp and its history, so that we can better understand maroons and maroon communities in early America and learn more about how enslaved people used an environment around them to resist their enslaved condition.
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Manage episode 278420531 series 60397
The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land speculators the chance to profit and enslaved men and women a chance for freedom in colonial British America and the early United States.
Marcus Nevius, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island and author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856, has offered to guide us into and through the Great Dismal Swamp and its history, so that we can better understand maroons and maroon communities in early America and learn more about how enslaved people used an environment around them to resist their enslaved condition.
Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/289 Join Ben Franklin's World!
Programming Note
- Episodes in December 2020 will run on December 8 and December 15. BFW will be back with new episodes on January 5, 2021.
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Complementary Episodes
- Episode 133: Patrick Breen, The Nat Turner Rebellion
- Episode 176: Daina Ramey Berry, The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave
- Episode 226: Ryan Quintana, Making the State of South Carolina
- Episode 250: Virginia, 1619
- Episode 263: Sari Altschuler, The Medical Imagination
- Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt
Listen!
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- Spotify
- Google Podcasts
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- Ben Franklin's World iOS App
- Ben Franklin's World Android App
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