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Book Breaks: Marcus P. Nevius
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This is a virtual event.Dates & Times
Date:
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Partner Program
Virtual/Digital
Description
Historian Marcus P. Nevius will discuss his book City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856.
City of Refuge is the story of an informal economy among enslaved people and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina.
In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Nevius explores slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic.
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