289 Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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The name “Great Dismal Swamp” doesn’t evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, and yet, it was an important place that offered land speculators the chance to profit and enslaved men and women a chance for freedom in colonial British America and the early United States.  Marcus Nevius, an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Rhode Island and author of City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856, has offered to guide us into and through the Great Dismal Swamp and its history, so that we can better understand maroons and maroon communities in early America and learn more about how enslaved people used an environment around them to resist their enslaved condition. Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/289 Complementary Episodes 🎧 Episode 133: Patrick Breen, The Nat Turner Rebellion 🎧 Episode 176: Daina Ramey Berry, The Value of the Enslaved from Womb to Grave 🎧 Episode 226: Ryan Quintana, Making the State of South Carolina 🎧 Episode 250: Virginia, 1619 🎧 Episode 263: Sari Altschuler, The Medical Imagination 🎧 Episode 282: Vincent Brown, Tacky’s Revolt REQUEST A TOPIC 📨 Topic Request Form 📫 liz@benfranklinsworld.com WHEN YOU'RE READY 🗞️ BFW Gazette Newsletter 👩‍💻 Join the BFW Listener Community LISTEN 🎧 🍎 Apple Podcasts 💚 Spotify 🎶 Amazon Music 🛜 Pandora CONNECT 🦋 Liz on Bluesky 👩‍💻 Liz on LinkedIn 🛜 Liz’s Website SAY THANKS 💜 Leave a review on Apple Podcasts 💚 Leave a rating on Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's world is a production of the
0:02.8	Omaha Institute.
0:04.8	Hello and welcome to episode 289 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:18.0	The podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past
0:24.4	have shaped the present-day world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Covert. The name
0:31.1	Great Dismal Swamp doesn't exactly evoke an image of a pleasant or beautiful place, does it?
0:36.0	And yet, it was an important place that offered land speculators the chance to profit,
0:41.0	and enslave men and women a chance for freedom in colonial British America and the early United States.
0:47.0	Marcus Nevius, an assistant professor of history at the University of Rhode Island,
0:52.0	and author of City of Refuge, slavery and
0:54.8	Petit Maronage and the Great Dismal Swamp 1763 to 1856, has offered to guide us into and
1:02.0	through the Great Dismal Swamp in its history,
1:04.8	so that we can better understand maroons and maroon communities in early America
1:09.3	and learn more about how enslaved people used an environment around them to resist their enslaved condition.
1:16.2	Now during our journey through the swamp, Marcus reveals information about the great dismal swamp
1:22.0	and how it came by its dismal name. information about the Great
1:25.3	Maroons and how it came by its dismal name.
1:24.8	Details about maroons and the differences between Petit marinage and grand marinage.
1:30.4	And the many roles the Great Dismal Swamp played in enslaved people's resistance to slavery.
1:36.0	But first, I have a programming note.
1:40.0	Next month marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival and present day Plymouth
1:44.1	Harbor.
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