Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Life in a Great Dismal Swamp Community: Free People of Color in Pre-Civil War Gates County, North Carolina
Record #:
22711
Author(s):
Abstract:
The Great Dismal Swamp is the center of Gates County, North Carolina's fame, known for its bounty of flora and fauna, and tales of runaway slaves. What is overlooked however, is that in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries--before the American Civil War--nearly four hundred free people of color called Gates County and the Great Dismal Swamp home.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 91 Issue 2, April 2014,
p144-170, il, por, f