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« on: September 30, 2016, 08:43:19 PM »So in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp, there were apparently secret villages of free black people, mostly escaped slaves, living in almost total isolation from the outside world. For like 150 years.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/deep-swamps-archaeologists-fugitive-slaves-kept-freedom-180960122/?no-ist
SECRET VILLAGES OF FUGITIVE SLAVES DEEP WITHIN THE SWAMP. Do I have my next Civil War Cthulhu scenario? Yes, yes I do.
There's a movie about a Brazilian community of freed slaves: Quilombo. It's about the quilombo of Palmares, a democratic community of nearly 30,000 people which survived for almost a century despite repeated attacks by the Dutch and Portuguese.
Wow, sweet! I've gotta check that out for inspiration. There's also a Harriet Beecher Stowe novel set in the swamp, titled Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. It was her follow-up to Uncle Tom's Cabin and features a much more militant protagonist.