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Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (review)

Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (review) Winthrop D. Jordan Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 1995, pp. 106-108 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423709/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:55 GMT from JHU Libraries 106Southern Cultures Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. By Charles B. Dew. W. W. Norton and Co., 1994. 429 pp. Cloth, $27.50. Reviewed by Winthrop D. Jordan, who was formerly at the University of California at Berkeley, and is now at the University ofMississippi. He L· the author of Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Having previously written a fine study of the Tredegar Iron Works, Charles Dew now takes up a topic that is both narrower and broader. Bond ofIron deals with a group of slaves and masters involved in a successful and long-term enterprise in the iron industry in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The story begins early in the nineteenth century, contin- ues through the Civil War, and reverberates through the 1880s. "Industrial slavery" has usually been treated by historians as a peripheral subset of the topic of "slavery" in the United States, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 2 (1) – Jan 4, 2012

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Winthrop D. Jordan Southern Cultures, Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 1995, pp. 106-108 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0044 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423709/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:55 GMT from JHU Libraries 106Southern Cultures Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. By Charles B. Dew. W. W. Norton and Co., 1994. 429 pp. Cloth, $27.50. Reviewed by Winthrop D. Jordan, who was formerly at the University of California at Berkeley, and is now at the University ofMississippi. He L· the author of Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Having previously written a fine study of the Tredegar Iron Works, Charles Dew now takes up a topic that is both narrower and broader. Bond ofIron deals with a group of slaves and masters involved in a successful and long-term enterprise in the iron industry in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The story begins early in the nineteenth century, contin- ues through the Civil War, and reverberates through the 1880s. "Industrial slavery" has usually been treated by historians as a peripheral subset of the topic of "slavery" in the United States,

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