William Attaway’s Blood on the Forge is an account of three siblings who avoid sharecropping life in the South and move toward the North in search of another existence of opportunity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Epitomizing a general example of movement/mobility of Afro-Americans in the 1920s and 1930s, known as the ‘great migration’, the Moss brothers arrive to work in the steel factories in the north but discover disparity in an alternate connection in their new life. Blood on the Forge not just focuses on the subject of class struggles and the hardships confronted by black American workers during the time of the Great Depression, it deals with the effective ecological theme as well in the novel so much so that Edward E. Waldron declares