Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art

Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia

Israel Cook Russell (American, 1852–1906) · c. 1872–90

albumen print
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

From the 1700s through the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp’s timber was harvested by slave labor, yet the swamp also housed numerous people who had escaped slavery.

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