The first Africans brought to the English colony of Virginia arrived in 1619 on the White Lion, an English privateer operating under a letter of marque from the Dutch Republic. … See more

In 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "The Slave in Dismal Swamp" for his collection Poems on Slavery. The poem uses six quintain stanzas to tell about the "hunted Negro", mentioning the use of bloodhounds and describing the … See more

• African-Americans in North Carolina
• Atlantic Creole
• Bristol slave trade
• Coastwise slave trade
• Colonial South and the Chesapeake See more

• Historical photos related to the Great Dismal Swamp Archived September 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
• History of Great Dismal Swamp
• New York Historical Society background on the Cronin painting See more

The Great Dismal Swamp spans an area of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between the James River near Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, North Carolina. The swamp is estimated to have originally been over 1 million … See more

The Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study began in 2002 and was led by Dan Sayers, a historical archaeologist at American University's Department of Anthropology. In 2003, he conducted the first excavation in the swamp, and in 2009, in partnership with the See more

• Silkenat, David. Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. See more