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

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 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 wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sayers, Daniel O. (Author)
Corporate Author: Society for Historical Archaeology
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida : Society for Historical Archaeology, [2014]
Subjects:
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.)
Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) > History.
History.
Holy Cross Note:"First paperback printing, 2015."
Table of Contents:
  • 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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