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The board of directors of the Samuel D. Outlaw Blacksmith Shop Museum proposes to restore the shop on Boundary Avenue, and to turn it into a museum and community gathering place that will promote ...
What happens when raw scrap meets masterful craftsmanship? In the world of blacksmithing, innovation and tradition collide as an old, discarded bearing is reborn into a fierce and beautiful black ...
Twenty-one years old in 1850, Adam labored as a blacksmith in the Pensacola Navy Yard. The Navy paid his enslavers, Josiah Q. and Lucinda Guild, $1 per day for Adam’s labor.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Black people learned beneficial skills as slaves. "They're probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into ...
In the poem The Village Blacksmith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow offers this description of the blacksmith. “His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan. His brow is wet with ...