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Celebrating The Great Dismal Swamp on the borders of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina where self-emancipated Black people, called Maroons from the Spanish word cimarrón meaning "fugitive" or "wild", lived freely for over 200 years before the end of slavery...

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