David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works
A Study of Industrial Slavery in the Early Nineteenth-Century South
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3417493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles B Dew (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 189 |
| Publication date | 1974-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1920909 |
| OpenAlex | W2326835294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
H TISTORIANS have documented the extensive use of slave labor in southern iron manufacturing during the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods, but a lack of detailed information on the operations of southern blast furnaces and forges during these years has prevented scholars from learning very much about the day-to-day functioning of this important phase of the South's industrial slave system.' The recent uncovering of a substantial portion of a letterbook kept by David Ross, a prominent Virginia merchant, planter, and the principal owner and developer of one of the largest iron works in the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary South, provides a rare opportunity to examine the life of the black iron worker in the early nineteenth century. The Ross Letterbook, which deals with operations at his Oxford
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2019 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |