Slaves were an integral part of the workforce in the iron industry of the
South.  Washington & Lee is doing a long-term study of Longdale.  They have a
lot of information on the ethnicity, etc. of the work force.  Contact Katharine
Stroh at [log in to unmask]  You might want also look at:

Dew, Charles B
 1966 Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron
Works.  Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
 1974 David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works: A Study of Industrial slavery in the
Early Nineteenth-Century South.  William & Mary Quarterly, Vol.  31(2):189-224.
 1994 Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge.  W. W. Norton & Company,
New York.

Ron Lewis did a number of articles, etc. including:
Lewis, Ronald Loran
 1974 Slavery in the Chesapeake Iron Industry, 1716-1865.  Dissertation.
University of Akron, Akron.

Bruce, Kathleen
 1926 The Manufacture of Ordnance in Virginia During the American Revolution,
Part I.  Army Ordnance VII (39, Nov-Dec 1926).
 1927 The Manufacture of Ordnance in Virginia During the American Revolution,
Part II.  Army Ordnance VII (41, Mar-Apr 1927).
 1930 Virginia Iron Manufacture in the Slave Era.  The Century Co., New York and
London.
 1968 Virginia Iron Manufacture in the Slave Era.  Augustus M. Kelley,
Publishers, New York.

Allen, J
 1970 The Mount Savage iron works, Mount Savage, Maryland, a case study in
pre-civil war industrial development.  Unpublished Masters thesis, University of
Maryland.

Barber, Michael B. and J. Mark Wittkosfski
 1993 The Extractive Industry of Virginia: Towards a Nineteenth-Century
Context.  Paper presented at the Council of Virginia Archaeologists Symposium
VII: The Transformation of Virginia in the Nineteenth Century, Alexandria.
 1999 The Extractive Industry of Virginia: Towards a 19th-Century Historic
Context.  In The Archaeology of 19th-Century Virginia edited by Theodore R.
Reinhart, pp. 307-323.  Council of Virginia Archaeologists and the Archeological
Society of Virginia Special Publication No. 35.  Archeological Society of
Virginia, Richmond.
Mike is a USFS archaeologist
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Bining, Arthur Cecil
 1979 [1938] Pennsylvania Iron Manufacture in the Eighteenth Century.
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

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