City of Refuge: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Early Republic’s Great Dismal Swamp by Marcus P. Nevius
When: Thu., June 4, 6-7 p.m. 2020
On June 4 at 6:00 p.m., Marcus P. Nevius will deliver a Banner Lecture entitled “City of Refuge: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Early Republic’s Great Dismal Swamp.”
Tracing the long-standing phenomenon of petit marronage in the Dismal Swamp – indefinite slave flight – that company agents tacitly accepted as vital to company operations.