City of Refuge
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5642-6 (ISBN)
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.
Marcus Nevius is an associate professor of History at the University of Rhode Island. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in history from North Carolina Central University, and a Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. His research centers around early African American history, history of the early republic, slave labor and resistance, and history of the African diaspora. Patrick Rael is a professor of history at Bowdoin College and one of the general editors of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 series. His books include Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North and African-American Activism before the Civil War: The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North. Rael is an Organization of American Historians distinguished lecturer, 2010–2015.
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Richard S. Newman, Patrick Rael, Manisha Sinha |
Zusatzinfo | 5 black & white images |
Verlagsort | Georgia |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 400 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8203-5642-5 / 0820356425 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8203-5642-6 / 9780820356426 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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