A Story Previously Untold

Museum Excavation Provides Glimpse of Slave Life at Tannehill

By Chris Bryant

Everyone has a story. Sometimes you have to dig a bit in order to tell it – especially when it’s covered by the absence of freedom and beneath the layers of time.

Slave labor helped build and power Tannehill Ironworks, an Alabama foundry that, at its zenith, produced more than 22 tons of iron a day for the Confederacy. Almost nothing was known about these men, women and children who, some 140 years ago, toiled long hours at the site.

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