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DESCRIPTION:​Kathryn Benjamin Golden\, University of Delaware\n\n"Remembe
 ring and Forgetting the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp: Public History 
 and Memory in the Tidewater"\n\n \n\nThe Great Dismal Swamp\, a space that
  once covered two thousand square miles of swamp between Virginia and Nort
 h Carolina’s eastern seaboard\, was home to thousands of self-emancipate
 d maroons throughout the period of 1700-1865. Marronage\, the act of fligh
 t from slavery and autonomous life in wilderness spaces\, is most often as
 sociated with the large-scale communities of maroons found in the Caribbea
 n and Latin America. Yet in North America\, the Great Dismal Swamp stands 
 out as having contained the most populous and the longest enduring communi
 ties of maroons in the history of the United States. Today\, this history 
 remains only marginally visible in the built landscape of the surviving sw
 amp. Texts\, plaques\, signs\, markers\, tour narratives\, and other disco
 urse at twenty-seven historical sites and sites that publicly inform the h
 istorical significance of the Dismal Swamp and the surrounding Tidewater r
 egion minimize\, distort\, segregate\, or silence the history of the maroo
 ns. The public history of slavery and the local public memory of marronage
  it conveys continue to be shaped by uneven institutional power and a logi
 c of whiteness that willfully suppresses histories involving white culpabi
 lity\, Black autonomy\, and armed\, organized resistance. In this talk\, I
  argue that these factors contribute to public forgetting about the Dismal
  Swamp as a site of marronage\, public forgetting about the United States 
 maroons more broadly\, and the human history of the swamp itself.\n\n \n\n
 The 2020-2021 academic year represents the 45th year in which the Workshop
  serves as a regular part of the History Department life. Due to the pande
 mic\, the History Workshop will be brought to you live via Zoom on select 
 Tuesdays. The Zoom meeting will open at 12:15. Presentations begin at 12:3
 0 pm ET. All are welcome! \n\n \n\nPlease contact Deb at dmh@udel.edu for 
 the Zoom link.
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