The Slave In The Swamp

Author : William Tynes Cowa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135470593

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The Slave in the Swamp by William Tynes Cowa Pdf

First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.

Author : Amina Luqman-Dawson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316056748

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Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson Pdf

Winner of the John Newbery Medal Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award Award-winning author Amina Luqman-Dawson pens a lyrical, accessible historical middle-grade novel about two enslaved children’s escape from a plantation and the many ways they find freedom. After an entire young life of enslavement, twelve-year-old Homer escapes Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, leaving his beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there’s no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the recesses of the swamp. In this new, free society made up of escaped slaves and some born-free children, Homer cautiously embraces a set of spirited friends, almost forgetting where he came from. But when he learns of a threat that could destroy Freewater, he hatches a plan to return to Southerland plantation, overcome his own cautious nature, and free his mother from enslavement. Loosely based on a little-mined but important piece of history, this is an inspiring and deeply empowering story of survival, love, and courage.

Author : Marcus Peyton Nevius
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
ISBN : 9780820356426

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City of Refuge by Marcus Peyton Nevius Pdf

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 : William Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0820322105

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Them Dark Days by William Dusinberre Pdf

Them Dark Days is a study of the callous, capitalistic nature of the vast rice plantations along the southeastern coast. It is essential reading for anyone whose view of slavery’s horrors might be softened by the current historical emphasis on slave community and family and slave autonomy and empowerment. Looking at Gowrie and Butler Island plantations in Georgia and Chicora Wood in South Carolina, William Dusinberre considers a wide range of issues related to daily life and work there: health, economics, politics, dissidence, coercion, discipline, paternalism, and privilege. Based on overseers’ letters, slave testimonies, and plantation records, Them Dark Days offers a vivid reconstruction of slavery in action and casts a sharp new light on slave history.

Author : Moses Grandy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : UOM:69015000002697

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Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy by Moses Grandy Pdf

This book is a slave narrative, written by former slave, Moses Grandy.

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814760284

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Slavery's Exiles by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.

Author : J. Brent Morris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469668260

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Dismal Freedom by J. Brent Morris Pdf

The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroons—people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers—established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites. Dismal Freedom unearths the stories of these maroons, their lives, and their struggles for liberation. Drawing from newly discovered primary sources and archeological evidence that suggests far more extensive maroon settlement than historians have previously imagined, award-winning author J. Brent Morris uncovers one of the most exciting yet neglected stories of American history. This is the story of resilient, proud, and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War.

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011715653

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Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

Written partly in response to the criticisms of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by both white Southerners and black abolitionists, Stowe's second novel, "Dred," attempts to explore the issue of slavery from an African American perspective. Through the compelling stories of Nina Gordon, the mistress of a slave plantation, and Dred, a black revolutionary, Stowe brings to life conflicting beliefs about race, the institution of slavery, and the possibilities of violent resistance.

Author : Daniel Sayers
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055244

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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People by Daniel Sayers Pdf

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 : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : BL:A0018645082

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Poems on Slavery by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0781289580

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Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf

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Author : John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0195084519

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Runaway Slaves by John Hope Franklin,Loren Schweninger Pdf

This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.

Author : Ann E. Burg
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545937870

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Unbound: A Novel in Verse by Ann E. Burg Pdf

From the award-winning author of All the Broken Pieces and Serafina's Promise comes a breathtaking new novel that is her most transcendent and widely accessible work to date. The day Grace is called from the slave cabins to work in the Big House, Mama makes her promise to keep her eyes down. Uncle Jim warns her to keep her thoughts tucked private in her mind or they could bring a whole lot of trouble and pain. But the more Grace sees of the heartless Master and hateful Missus, the more a rightiness voice clamors in her head-asking how come white folks can own other people, sell them on the auction block, and separate families forever. When that voice escapes without warning, it sets off a terrible chain of events that prove Uncle Jim's words true. Suddenly, Grace and her family must flee deep into the woods, where they brave deadly animals, slave patrollers, and the uncertainty of ever finding freedom. With candor and compassion, Ann E. Burg sheds light on a startling chapter of American history--the remarkable story of runaways who sought sanctuary in the Great Dismal Swamp--and creates a powerful testament to the right of every human to be free.

Author : Marcus P. Nevius
Publisher : Race in the Atlantic World, 17
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0820361690

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City of Refuge by Marcus P. Nevius Pdf

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UCAL:B3325136

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Dred by Harriet Beecher Stowe Pdf