William Byrd II was one of the first Colonists to record the first sight of the Great Dismal Swamp on March 13, 1728. While marking the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina, Byrd noted: “Our work ended within a quarter of a mile of the Dismal, where the ground began to be already full of sunken holes and slashes… It is hardly credible how little the bordering inhabitants were acquainted with this mighty swamp, notwithstanding they had lived their whole lives within s

"Pap" Singleton, the “Black Moses,” saw self-sufficient Black communities in abolitionist Kansas as the “New Canaan.” Between 20,000 and 40,000 African Americans took part in this movement. In 1879 alone, about 6,000 migrants arrived in Kansas.

William the Conqueror could also be called William the Disruptor, as he reordered women’s rights, the Church, social structure, the treasury, and forestry.

Henry Box Brown, who was born in 1815, escaped from the Virginia slave owner who sold his pregnant wife and three children away.