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Great Dismal Swamp: Descendants of enslaved, Indigenous people want to make it a national heritage site
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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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The Great Dismal Swamp once covered more than a million acres between northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.
Between 1620 and the time of the Civil War, the swamp served as a thriving refuge for runaway slaves who chose to build their lives in freedom no matter the conditions. You have venomous snakes, biting insects and flies, a thick cover of greenbrier, Chris Lowie, Manager of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, told CBN News. A great place as a refuge for wildlife but not as much a great place for refuge for people. Start Your Day with CBN News QuickStart!!! Go here to sign up for QuickStart and other
Virginia, North Carolina leaders introduce legislation to protect the Great Dismal Swamp
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The Great Dismal Swamp is home to the ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes.
The area is also home to the largest known collection of archaeological artifacts from maroon colonies, and is one of the only known water-based stops on the Underground Railroad to freedom.
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