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The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for the enslaved. Their descendants want to preserve it. Meagan Flynn Eric Sheppard is the great-great-great-nephew of Moses Grandy, who was enslaved in the Great Dismal Swamp and ultimately became an abolitionist. He and others are pushing to make the swamp a national heritage site. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Almost 20 years ago, Eric Sheppard picked up the slave narrative written by his distant ancestor, Moses Grandy, and set out to retrace his long trudge to freedom. “Everywhere Moses Grandy went, I went,” Sheppard said. “The clues were left in Moses Grandy’s slave narrative for me.”

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