![City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856 (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser.) by [Nevius, Marcus P.]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BMPXVF09L.jpg)
A well-researched look at Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina.
I am not sure that people really understand the different slave classes. This work gives us as much information as can be found about this city of refuge for runaway slaves. People today would call it living off the grid. HIding in a swamp, creating their own forms of currency and working closely with slaves and white people.
The amount of information is really quite extraordinary, as these men/women tended to leave no tracks. I can’t imagine how long this work took, but I am better for having read it.
As a descendant of the man who wrote the runaway slave act, I was deeply moved by this book.
NetGalley/ University of Georgia Press; February 8th, 2020
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