Great Dismal Swamp Resources
Descendants of the Great Dismal
https://descendantsofthegreatdismal.com/
Dismal Swamp Welcome Center Brochure
https://dismalswampwelcomecenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/AAHB-2019-Final.pdf
Videos
TED-Ed - The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gt9Mc9jnOE
Virginia Home Grown: Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
https://www.pbs.org/video/great-dismal-swamp-national-wildlife-refuge-nznkdi/
The Great Dismal Swamp: Hidden History with Brian Bullock (Start at 4:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GmcCHCWVZM
Great Big Story - Inside the Historic Swamp Refuge for African-American Slaves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1teBwZ9e0
The Nature Bus - Virtual Tour of the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwHrvvJWFz0
CBN News - 'Living in Swamp Better Than Being Enslaved': How Runaway Slaves Found Freedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvEVSw5WuE
PBS Shorts - People escaped slavery and thrived in the “Great Dismal Swamp”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CsQXxvZi6mk
Lectures
VMHC Lecture: Freedom and Unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9YKJmR2vBY
VMHC Lecture on Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7-RJ3VaQrc
Podcasts
99% Invisible Podcast - Episode 271 The Great Dismal Swamp
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/great-dismal-swamp/
Ben Franklin’s World Podcast Episode 289: Marcus P. Nevius, Maroonage & the Great Dismal Swamp (Production of the Omohundro Institute Of Early American History & Culture)
https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-289-marcus-p-nevius-maroonage-the-great-dismal-swamp/
Conversations at the Washington Library Episode 185: Seeking a City of Refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp with Marcus P. Nevius
Southern Gothic The Podcast: Refuge in the Great Dismal Swamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBs8ITobjW4
Radio IQ Tribal Truths: Nansemond Indian Nation: Looking for Ancestors in the Great Dismal Swamp
The Secret War of Willis Hodges: An 8-episode exploration of the clues left behind by a secret society fighting for civil rights in pre-Civil War Virginia.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1053922280/the-secret-war-of-willis-hodges
Articles
NEH Article - The Dismal Swamp: One Road Out of Slavery Took You Straight into the Boggiest Place You’ve Ever Been.
Smithsonian Article - Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom
The Virginian Pilot - The Great Dismal Swamp was a refuge for escaped slaves. A congressman wants to revive its forgotten history.