Download or read book Bond of Iron written by Charles B. Dew and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).