A new study claims that it was Jamaican Black metallurgists who came up with the metallurgy process.
bases, and maritime networks in Jamaica relied on the skill of Black metallurgists to remanufacture European ballast and scrap, noted the study.
The main author of the study, Jenny Bulstrode, went over oral histories and material culture with archives, newspapers, and published works. She found that working iron was a means of expression against the onslaught of Europe’s human trade. It expressed forging fighting alliances between West and Central African societies, healing sickness, and expressing grief.
The 76 Black metallurgists ran a foundry named after a white enslaver, John Reeder. Some of the metallurgists have been named in the study - Devonshire, Mingo, Mingo’s son Friday, Captain Jack, Matt, George, Jemmy, Jackson, Will, Bob, Guy, Kofi, and Kwasi.blades was also a reflection of how sugar cane in Jamaica was bundled like iron.Eventually, a couple of events led to John Reeder’s foundry being the talk of the island. Henry Cort at the time ran a failing ironworks.
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