Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) fido Note: Dress may vary

Note:  Dress may vary

during the famous “High Tide of the Confederacy: Pickett’s Charge

sometimes as a brief comment in passing and other times as part of a noteworthy event in their lives

Hess (Foreword)

He emphasized that the Union was worthy of preservation in light of the Declaration's principles of liberty and equality

Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) fido Note: Dress may varyby J. Brent Morris The massive and foreboding Great Dismal Swamp sprawls over 2,000 square miles and spills over parts of Virginia and North Carolina. From the early seventeenth century, the nearly impassable Dismal frustrated settlement. However, what may have been an impediment to the expansion of slave society became an essential sanctuary for many of those who sought to escape it. In the depths of the Dismal, thousands of maroonspeople who had