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Journal Article
The Defiance of Wilderness
2025
Overview
This article examines the multifaceted material and ideological significance of the United States’s Great Dismal Swamp in the colonial and Antebellum South (1728–1860), particularly in the lives and imaginations of Southern whites, enslaved individuals, and Maroons. I argue that the swamp functioned simultaneously as a site of exploitation, sanctuary, and resistance, roles deeply tied to the labor performed within its boundaries and to the Maroon communities it sheltered. By analyzing the swamp’s symbolic construction as a “wilderness,” this study reveals its opposition to the capitalist, hierarchical logic of the plantation system and underscores its role as a space of both refuge and defiance.
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Australia New Zealand American Studies Association
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