{"id":497583,"date":"2024-01-26T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=497583"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:53:15","slug":"jamaicans-behind-british-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/jamaicans-behind-british-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaicans behind British iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly discovered historical documents indicate that the wrought iron production method was created in the eighteenth century by Black metalworkers in Jamaica and taken to England by British businessman Henry Cort (1740\u20131800), who is credited with inventing the technique. Represented in many London structures, such as the Crystal Palace and St. Pancras station, the so-called Cort process helped Britain become the largest iron exporter in the world. Historian Jenny Bulstrode of University College London (UCL) found that many enslaved ironworkers in Jamaica had been trafficked from West and Central Africa, which already had iron mills. Owned by Englishman John Reeder, the Jamaican mill was destroyed by order of the English government to prevent it from manufacturing weapons. Cort purchased the machines, sent them to England, and patented the technique in the 1780s. \u201cIf you ask people what an innovator looks like, they think of Elon Musk or some white man in a lab coat,\u201d Bulstrode told the British newspaper <em>The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cWe don\u2019t think about Black people, enslaved people, in eighteenth century Jamaica.\u201d She highlighted the names of some of the Jamaican ironworkers: Devonshire, Mingo, Mingo&#8217;s son, Friday, Captain Jack, Matt, George, Jemmy, Jackson, Will, Bob, Guy, Kofi, and Kwasi (<em>The Guardian<\/em>, July 5; <em>History and Technology<\/em>, June 21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrought iron production method was invented by Black metalworkers in Jamaica before being taken to England","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":497521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[228,241],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-497583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-engineering","tag-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497584,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497583\/revisions\/497584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=497583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}