Dismal Swamp
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Luqman-Dawson is describing the first time she set foot in the Great Dismal Swamp, the setting for her middle-grade novel, “Freewater.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2022
It was once the hub of the Dismal Swamp Canal, a project envisioned by George Washington to connect the Albemarle Sound to the Chesapeake Bay.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2021
A group of photographs of the Great Dismal Swamp, where escaped slaves sought refuge on the way north and many died, are also strong and harrowing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2018
The Great Dismal Swamp, a few days’ walk at most from the Chowan River excavation, was long a destination for escaped slaves, who formed self-reliant communities in its inaccessible reaches.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2015
We’d load up the trailer full of goods from the warehouses and drive though the Dismal Swamp around Portsmouth and No folk.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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