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Profit and Loss: Forced Labor at the Northampton Iron Furnace (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the 1760s to the 1820s, convicts, indentured servants, and enslaved peoples worked and died producing and forging iron near Baltimore, Maryland. The iron was crucial to the growth of the British Empire, the American Revolution, and the building of the town of...