Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
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Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
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).Technical Specifications
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