African American Studies

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  Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge

  Charles B. Dew

  Paperback

  A study of African-American workers empowered and partly liberated by their skills.

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  Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery

  Robert William Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman

  Paperback

  First published in 1974, Fogel and Engerman's groundbreaking book reexamined the economic foundations of American slavery, marking "the start of a new period of slavery scholarship and some searching revisions of a national tradition" (C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books).