David Ross and the Oxford Iron Works

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

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