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1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 workers, and outcast Europeans who made the Swamp their home. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) -- History.
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Archaeology -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
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Archaeology. |
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Natural history -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
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Natural history. |
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Fugitive slave communities -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
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Maroons -- Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
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Fugitive slave communities. |
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Maroons. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. |
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United States -- Dismal Swamp. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Society for Historical Archaeology.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sayers, Daniel O. Desolate place for a defiant people 9780813060187 (DLC) 2014020272 (OCoLC)884630955 |
| ISBN |
9780813055244 (electronic book) |
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0813055245 (electronic book) |
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9780813060187 |
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0813060184 |
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