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.
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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.
The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable.
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