[PDF.91kj] Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

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 | #1972268 in Books |  1994-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x6.50 x1.75l, | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Enslaved Iron Workers|By Lawrence M. Yoder|This book provides an amazing window into the use of African American Salves in the iron industry in Virginia in the 19th century. One surprising thing is that these enslaved iron workers were sometimes given a cash bonus if they worked extra hard and produced more than the expected amount of pig iron. Nevertheless this kind of bonus w|From Publishers Weekly|This is an original, unusually detailed contribution to the study of slavery. Dew, who teaches American Studies at Williams College, draws on extensive records to portray the slave system at an ironworks near Lexington, Va., in the decades

Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise near Lexington, Virginia, was bought in 1812 by a Philadelphian, William Weaver. By the Civil War, Weaver had amassed a great estate, including 70 slaves of his own plus 100 slaves hired annually to run his blast furnaces and farm his 20,000 acres. Weaver and his successors were fastidious record keepers. A unique treasury of documents has survived - of births, marriages, illnesses and deaths - as well as work...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge   |  Charles B. Dew. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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