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

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Label

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

Title remainder

the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp

Statement of responsibility

Daniel O. Sayers

Creator

• Sayers, Daniel O

Contributor

• Society for Historical Archaeology

Subject

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

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

FUG/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography