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The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were freed and escaped slaves who inhabited the marshlands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s. Harriett Beecher Stowe told the maroon people's story in her 1856 novel ''Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp''. The most significant research on the settlements began in 2002 with a project by Dan Sayers of American University. == Location == (詳細はVirginia and northeastern North Carolina between the James River near Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, North Carolina.〔 The swamp is estimated to have originally been over ,〔 but human encroachment has destroyed up to 90% of the swampland.〔〔〔 Today, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is just over .〔
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