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"The Slave in the Dismal Swamp," from Poems, Vol. I, 1856 Slave refugees, swamps, primeval forests, and local legends fascinated nineteenth-century artists and writers such as Thomas Moran, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This fascination has aptly been described as a "dark Eden." |
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