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Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

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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).

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A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.

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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).
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Charles B. Dew is Class of 1956 Professor of American Studies at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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ISBN:
9780393313598
Author:
Dew, Charles B.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
United States - General
Subject:
Government and political science
Subject:
Slavery
Subject:
United States - State & Local
Subject:
Race relations
Subject:
Minority group studies
Subject:
United States - State & Local - General
Subject:
Weaver, William
Subject:
Slave labor -- Virginia -- Lexington Region.
Subject:
United States - 19th Century
Subject:
Americana-General
Publication Date:
19950931
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3 in 1.5 lb
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