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"Following the model of the first book in the "History in the Headlines (HiH) series (Catherine Clinton's Confederate Statues and Memorialization), Voter Suppression in U.S. Elections offers an enlightening, history-informed conversation about voter disenfranchisement in the United States. The book includes an edited transcript of a conversation hosted by the Library Company of Philadelphia in 2019, as well as the "ten best" articles students and interested citizens should read about voter access and suppression. The book will have an online presence that hosts additional content (more articles, podcasts, other news) on the press's Manifold digital publishing platform site"--

"Lurking in swamps, woods, or other obscure places" : petit marronage in eastern Virginia and North Carolina in the eighteenth century -- "Liv'd by himself in the desert about 13 years" : slaves, shingles, and the early companies of the Dismal Swamp -- "Lawless sette of villains" : petit marronage and the competition for space in the turn-of-the-century swamp -- "All delinquents in duty" : petit marronage and the Dismal Swamp Canal -- "To manage the business of the swamp" : the informal slave economy, freedom, and unfreedom in the Great Dismal Swamp -- "Intention of which Negroes was to reach the Dismal Swamp" : the Turner Rebellion, rising abolition, and the Dismal's slave labor camp -- "Slaves in the Dismal Swamp" : abolitionists and the Dismal's extractive economy of slavery -- "From log cabin to the pulpit" : William H. Robinson and the late nineteenth-century legacy of petit marronage.