Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

Dew, Charles B.

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).

429 pages, W. W. Norton Publisher, 1995.