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

Edward Tarr ("Black Ned") secured his own freedom, settled with his Scottish wife in Virginia, helped found the Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church, worked as a blacksmith, and purchased a 270-acre farm. The Road to Black Ned's Forge: A Story of Race, Sex, and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier succeeds in accomplishing McCleskey's intention to "draw readers to a more nuanced understanding of ordinary people in the late colonial backcountry" (p. 7).