num_pages: 448
description: 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 ).
language: English
title: Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
titlecomplete: Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge
genres: American History, History, Labor
ratings_count: 37
places: Lexington, Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Elliott Rudwick Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company