City of Refuge. Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856, Paperback/Marcus P. Nevius

Tells 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. This examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. Publisher: University of Georgia Press Author(s): Marcus P. Nevius Number of pages: 168 Collection: Race in the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 Series Publication date: 2021 Dimensions: 151 x 226 x 14 Cover type: Paperback / softback