The Road to Black Ned's Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier

by Turk McCleskey

Book Overview

In 1752 an enslaved Pennsylvania ironworker named Ned purchased his freedom and moved to Virginia on the upper James River. Taking the name Edward Tarr, he became the first free black landowner west of the Blue Ridge. Tarr established a blacksmith shop on the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the Carolinas and helped found a Presbyterian congregation that exists to this day. Living with him was his white, Scottish wife, and in a twist that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813935822
• ISBN13: 9780813935829
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher