Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) Doll citizens on the home front

citizens on the home front await the day of reckoning that everyone knows is coming

forming a fresh and compelling narrative of Lincoln’s life

together with several original pieces

As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States

detailed footnotes

Dismal Freedom : A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp ( J. Brent Morris -BH) Doll citizens on the home frontby 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