Bond of Iron
Author: Charles B. Dew
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780393313598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills. At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews).