Herbert Aptheker stated already in 1939, in "Maroons Within the Present Limits of the United States", that likely "about two thousand Negroes, fugitives, or the descendants of fugitives" lived in the Great Dismal Swamp, trading with white people outside the swamp.
Herbert Aptheker stellte bereits 1939 in Maroons Within the Present Limits of the United States fest, dass wahrscheinlich „ungefähr 2000 Neger, Flüchtige oder ihre Nachkommen“ (Negroes, fugitives, or the descendants of fugitives) im Great Dismal Swamp lebten.