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The Southern Underground Railroad: Louisiana's Hidden Nations
The Great Dismal Swamp hid people who vanished without a trace. The Louisiana bayou hid people who refused to vanish at all. In the 1780s, in the wetlands below New Orleans, free Black people built hidden towns in the marsh: a camp on the edge of a plantation and a deep-swamp town on high, dry ground, about twenty-one people from fifteen plantations, led by the man the records call Jean Saint Malo. They farmed, fished, carved big wooden tubs from cypress trees, wove baskets the Chitimacha taught them, and ran a trade chain from the deep swamp to the plantations to the Sunday market at Congo…
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