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African Ironworking Culture in Western Maryland thesis

Graduate thesis, San Francisco State University "African Ironmaking Culture Among Ironworkeers in Western Maryland, 1760-1850" The major method is comparison with ironmaking societies in West Africa at the time of enslavement, looking for similarities to furnace technology and cultural practices. The slave worker furnace population is described demographically at census intervals. African American autobiographies, archaeological data, census manuscripts, legal records, and advertisements are the primary sources used to describe the group.

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