Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

Dew, Charles B

ISBN 10: 0393036162 ISBN 13: 9780393036169

Published by W. W. Norton & Co., New York, 1994

Language: English

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Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Co., New York

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

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0393036162

ISBN 13

9780393036169

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Hardcover

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1st printing.

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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.

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

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James Lawton, a graduate of Benedictine University, has Master?s degrees in English and in Library Science from the University of Michigan. From 1963 to 1967, he served as the Rare Book Assistant for the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, at the University of Michigan. He was the Rare Book Bibliographer at Syracuse University Library, in 1967 and 1968. In 1969 he was appointed Curator of Manuscripts, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Boston Public Library. He became Assistant Keeper of Rare Books and Manuscripts Boston Public Library, in 1975. From 1980 to 2000 he was the owner and proprietor of Brookline Village Books, a retail establishment specializing in general out-of-print, scholarly, and rare books. In 2000 the business became internet based only under the name J. Lawton, Booksellers.

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