Category:Great Dismal Swamp maroons
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English: Great Dismal Swamp maroons — freed and/or escaped fugitive enslaved African Americans, who lived in the Great Dismal Swamp marshlands, located in Virginia and North Carolina.
- Research indicates that thousands lived there between c. 1700 and the 1860s, although conditions were harsh.
- Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote about the Maroons people in her 1856 novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.
Media in category "Great Dismal Swamp maroons"
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Great Dismal Swamp-Fugitive Slaves.jpg 394 × 480; 41 KB
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Great Dismal Swamp-Fugitive Slaves Ausschnitt.jpg 173 × 210; 23 KB
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GreatDismalSwampMaroon1856.jpg 465 × 640; 103 KB
