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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460104503321

Autore

Sayers Daniel O.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5060-X

0-8130-5524-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

975.5/523

Soggetti

Archaeology - Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)

Natural history - Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)

Electronic books.

Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.