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Marronage and the Great Dismal Swamp

For recent scholars, the Great Dismal Swamp—an ecological treasure that stretches across present-day Virginia and into North Carolina—stands as a

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Garrett Felber’s Those Who Know Don’t Say.

Confederate monuments are toppling across the nation following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other African Americans.

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

Earlier this year, the Pulitzer Prize Committee announced that this year’s prize for journalistic commentary would be awarded to New