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The Southern Underground Railroad: The Great Dismal Swamp
Before there was an Underground Railroad running north, there was a country running inward. Deep in the Great Dismal Swamp - a million acres of black water and cypress straddling Virginia and North Carolina - enslaved people who escaped bondage built something the history books forgot: permanent, thriving communities called maroon settlements, some lasting thirty years or more.
In this episode of Sankofa Chronicles, we walk the swamp in three parts: the edge communities trading with the outside world, the canal dug by enslaved hands that both sustained and threatened the refuge, and the deep…
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