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Author : Waverley Traylor
Publisher : Rosedog Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434997596
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434941145
Author : Daniel Sayers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055244
In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Here they created their own way of life, free of the exploitation and alienation they had escaped. In the first thorough examination of this vital site, Daniel Sayers examines the area’s archaeological record, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.
Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
ISBN : 9780820356426
City of Refuge is 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. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.
Author : Charles A. Mills
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673355
For centuries, Virginians have told, retold and embellished wonderful stories of their history. Legends such as the "wild Spanish ponies" of Chincoteague, General Braddock's lost gold, the Mount Vernon Monster and the Richmond Vampire tug at the imagination. Revolutionary War heroes, Annandale's Bunny Man, the enslaved woman who became a Union spy in the White House of the Confederacy and many others left imprints on the Commonwealth of Virginia. Explore secret societies, hidden knowledge and the mysteries of the universe with author Chuck Mills.
Author : Sherman Carmichael
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664636
Master storyteller Sherman Carmichael ventures into the Tar Heel State to deliver strange and mysterious tales along the coast. Read about shipwrecks such as that of the SS Liberator, which still sits at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Diamond Shoals, and legendary storms like the 1911 Water Spouts, which were described as tornadoes spinning wildly atop the ocean. Find out why the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is said to be haunted by a large black cat. Learn about the origins of Boo Hag, a fiendish creature that sucks the life out of her victims as they sleep at night--a tale that originates from the rich Gullah culture of the Carolinas. Join Carmichael as he contemplates these stories and more from the mysterious side of North Carolina's beloved coastal counties.
Author : Frank Stephenson Jr.,Barbara Nichols Mulder
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625855923
North Carolina holds a special place in the history of moonshine. For more than three centuries, the illicit home-brew was a way of life. NASCAR emerged from the illegal moonshine tradeas drivers such as Junior Johnson, accustomed to running from the law, moved to the racetrack. A host of colorful characters populated the state's bootlegging arena, like Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, known as the Paul Bunyan of moonshine, and Alvin Sawyer, considered the moonshine king of the Great Dismal Swamp. Some law enforcement played a constant cat-and-mouse game to shut down illegal stills, while some just looked the other way. Authors Frank Stephenson and Barbara Mulder reveal the gritty history of moonshine in the Tar Heel State.
Author : Lynn Rainville
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476671925
Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles--Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic gardeners. More than 100,000 were drafted--more than 3600 lost their lives. Almost every city and county lost men and women to the war. The author details the state's manifold contributions to the war effort and presents a study of monuments erected after the war.
Author : Bill Thompson,Andy Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135083601
This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Wildlife conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015082362941
Author : David Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0521375533
An important though little understood aspect of the response of nineteenth-century Americans to nature is the widespread interest in the scenery of swamps, jungles, and other wastelands. Dark Eden focuses on this developing interest in order to redefine cultural values during a transformative period of American history. Professor Miller shows how for many Americans in the period around the Civil War nature came to be regarded less as a source of high moral insight and more as a sanctuary from an ever more urbanised and technological environment. In the swamps and jungles of the South a whole range of writers and artists found a set of strange and exotic images by which to explore changing social realities of the times and the deep-seated personal pressures that accompanied them.
Author : Robert K. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
ISBN : UVA:X004548921
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Folklore
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1PCM
Author : Maptech
Publisher : Maptech
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781545757314
The Embassy Cruising Guide Chesapeake Bay to Florida is a must for recreational boaters traveling the waters of Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay and the Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk, VA to the Florida border.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : UVA:X000940986
