Blood on the Forge

Year of Publication
1941
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
264 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: William Attaway
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
City
New York
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Abstract
Follows the Moss trio—Chinatown, Melody, and Big Mat—three black half-brothers who leave Kentucky for the Monongahela River Valley for promised factory jobs. The Mosses endure bleak working conditions and end up on opposition sides of the 1919 Steel Strike.
Notes
Written as an epic and Black response to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Author Biography
William Attaway (1911-86), a Mississippi-born African American, followed a darker, more violent, and naturalist style like Emile Zola’s Germinal. Attaway later wrote for radio, television, and Hollywood.
Time
1919
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