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Blood on the Forge is a migration novel by the African-American writer William Attaway set in the steel valley of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during 1919, a time when vast numbers of Black Americans moved northward. Attaway's own family was part of this population shift from South to North when he was a child.
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Blood on the Forge. William Attaway, Darryl Pinckney (Introduction) 3.79. 524 ratings58 reviews. This brutally gripping novel about the African-American Great Migration follows the three Moss brothers, who flee the rural South to work in industries up North.
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- William Attaway
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Feb 10, 2020 · Blood on the forge. by. Attaway, William. Publication date. 1987. Topics. African American iron and steel workers -- Fiction, Iron and steel workers -- Fiction, African American men -- Fiction, Migration, Internal -- Fiction, Brothers -- Fiction, African American iron and steel workers, African American men, Brothers, Iron and steel workers, ...
Jan 31, 2005 · Blood on the Forge. William Attaway. New York Review of Books, Jan 31, 2005 - Fiction - 264 pages. Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal...
Feb 24, 2005 · Blood on the Forge 1 is a relentlessly grim story about three brothers, the Moss boys, who flee their sharecroppers’ lives in Kentucky for the hard scrabble of labor in the Pennsylvania steel mills. The year in which Attaway set his novel, 1919, is significant in that not only was it the height of the Great Migration, it was the year of the ...
In Blood on the Forge, the earlier paean to the qualities of the simple country landscape suddenly becomes an angry repudiation of industrial life as destructive to human values.
About Blood on the Forge. Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of the Great Migration from the Jim Crow SouthBlood on the Forge.
