Also known as: Great Dismal Swamp
Last updated: April 26, 2026
In Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons, the Great Dismal Swamp appears as the strongest mainland American maroon refuge in the vault: a place where fugitives used difficult terrain to build contrasting strategies of isolation, labor, exchange, and survival across a long period.
Great Dismal Swamp
Great Dismal Swamp
Great Dismal Swamp
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