Scholar-activists Andrew Zonneveld and Modibo Kadalie present a new book documenting lesser-known histories of oppressed peoples of African, Indigenous, and European descent who lived and fought together for their collective liberation while building multi-racial and directly democratic communities within Georgia's most remote and secluded natural landscapes, from the earliest period of European colonialism up to the end of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction.

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SPEAKERS

Andrew Zonneveld is an independent historian, master naturalist, and organizer from DeKalb County, Georgia. He is the author of "All Will Be Equalized!": Georgia's Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods and Sea Islands, 1526-1890.

Modibo Kadalie is a scholar-activist and retired professor of political science with nearly 65 years of experience in the Civil Rights, Black Power, Pan-Africanist, and Social-Ecology movements. He is the author of Pan-African Social Ecology (2019), and Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom (2022).