TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayers,Daniel O.
TI  - A desolate place for a defiant people: the archaeology of maroons, indigenous Americans, and enslaved laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp 
SN  - 978-0-8130-6018-7
U1  - 975.5523 23E
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Gainesville, Tallahassee, Tampa [etc.]
PB  - University Press of Florida, Society for Historical Archaeology
KW  - Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)--History
KW  - Archaeology--Dismal Swamp (N.C. and Va.)
N1  - Bibliogr. p. [229]-247; The Great Dismal Swamp landscape, then and now -- Alienation: a foundational concept -- The architecture of alienation in modern history -- The documented Great Dismal Swamp, 1585-1860 -- Scission communities, canal company laborer communities, and interpretations of their archaeological -- Presence in the Great Dismal Swamp -- Two hundred and fifty years of community praxis in the Great Dismal Swamp: some concluding thoughts
N2  - Sayers examines the Great Dismal Swamp's archaeological record from ca. 1600 until the time of the Civil War, exposing and unraveling the complex social and economic systems developed by the thousands of Indigenous Americans, Africa American maroons, free African Americans, enslaved company workers, and outcast Europeans who made the Swamp their home
ER  -