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Israel Cook Russell

Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia

c. 1872–90
albumen print

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

From the 1700s through the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp’s timber was harvested by slave labor, yet the swamp also housed numerous people who had escaped slavery.

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