page_title: Great Dismal Swamp maroons
hierarchical_section_title: Great Dismal Swamp maroons
caption_attribution_description: English: Painting depicting the pre-Civil War era of slavery in Virginia, of enslaved African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp maroons.
context_page_description: The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the marshlands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s. Harriett Beecher Stowe told the maroon people's story in her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The most significant research on the settlements began in 2002 with a project by Dan Sayers of American University.
context_section_description: The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the marshlands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s. Harriett Beecher Stowe told the maroon people's story in her 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. The most significant research on the settlements began in 2002 with a project by Dan Sayers of American University.
caption: Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, by David Edward Cronin, 1888
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