N.Y., visits the historic Catoctin Furnace African-American Cemetery where some head stones were gathered around a tree. Jones is a descendant of enslaved people working at the iron forge where ...

Enslaved people of African descent were forced to work in agricultural ... with industrial buildings and housing. Workers mined iron ore, kept the furnace burning and made various goods - stoves ...

They were quickly sold at auction, their African ... misdemeanours, people were chained to a treadmill and whipped to keep it turning – or made to work the fields wearing an iron collar.