User:GonFreecss999/Great Dismal Swamp

- Ideas: We will be adding to the introduction and history sections of the article as these seem sparse. The history of the swamp seems to be: more directly in the people that lived in the Swamp (than what has happened to the swamp) and that is sparse in that there isn't much at all about them in the section. Possibly include a literature section about the different literatures that the Great Dismal Swamp is featured in.

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Intro section: The swamp was a refuge location for The Great Dismal Swamp Maroons, including enslaved people in the Southern states before the United States Civil War

(History Section) During the years of slavery the Great Dismal Swamp held a place in the minds who lived near it. For those escaped slaves who didn't escape to areas without the threat of continued enslavement, the Great Dismal Swamp an area where they could live free and away from the racially constrictive social structure. The Great Dismal Swamp contrastingly was seen as an area of fomenting maroon rebellion by the white controlled governments nearby, this was fueled largely by wealthy land and slave owners in the area, eager to keep the power structure static. Several sorties were led in to the swamp to hunt for escaped slaves and put down rebellions (citation).

This is evident in the Great Dismal Swamps presence in the literature of the time: (To be changed ->) Fredrick Douglas's hero of his short story "The Heroic Slave" resisted slavery in the swamp for 5 years and (To be changed ->) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "The Slave in the Dismal Swamp" in 1842.



- Golden, Kathryn Benjamin. “‘Armed in the Great Swamp’: Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp.” The Journal of African American History, vol. 106, no. 1, The University of Chicago Press, 2021, pp. 1–26, https://doi.org/10.1086/712038.

- Day, Thomas. “Mired Memory: ‘Marronage’ in The Great Dismal Swamp.” Social and Economic Studies, vol. 67, no. 1, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, 2018, pp. 33–47.

- Sharples, Jason T. “City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856.” The Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 11, no. 3, University of North Carolina Press, 2021, pp. 408–10.

- Sayers, Daniel O. A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp. University Press of Florida, 2014, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx073z9.

- Sayers, Daniel O. “Diasporan Exiles in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860.” Transforming Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, pp. 10–20., https://doi.org/10.1525/tran.2006.14.1.10.