BOND OF IRON: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

DEW, Charles B.

ISBN 10: 0393036162 / ISBN 13: 9780393036169

Published by New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994

About this Item

Publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth over mustard-colored boards, small quarto (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches), pp. xviii, 429. Black and white illustrations. Two maps. Top edge of front board is rubbed through near tip (see image for our best attempt at a close-up), else Very Good. Dust jacket Very Good and preserved in a removable sheet of archival mylar.

Seller Inventory # 21649

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BOND OF IRON: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
• Publisher: New York: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393036162
• ISBN 13: 9780393036169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Southern United States
  • Virginia
  • African American

About this title

Synopsis

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 working ledgers that provide an insight into the day-to-day life of the slave community of that period.

About the Author

Charles B. Dew is Class of 1956 Professor of American Studies at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.