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Kathryn Benjamin Golden

Kathryn Benjamin Golden

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at University of Delaware; historian specializing in Black women's resistance, marronage, and rebellion in the Great Dismal Swamp.

Jul 20, 2026

19:20
OK.
19:21
I was just saying I didn't know at that time that I was going to write a book about this swamp and what the swamp meant and the ecology of the swamp and the geography of the greater area.
19:34
Tidewater region from the lens and perspective of black women.
19:38
I didn't know that then, but I did know that I was interested in overt and bold resistance and I had hardly anything to go on it as far as the written records that were available.
19:52
There was a handful.
19:55
I mean, there, there are, there, there is documentary evidence, right.
19:58
Of maroons and their activities, what they were doing, the, the, the archeology helped.

11 MINS LATER

31:26
And that is, tell me the weirdest, most random thing that has happened to you that had to do with nature.

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