👉 In the context of African American history, landiron refers to a type of slave laborer employed by slaveholders in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Landiron workers were typically hired as indentured servants or bonded laborers to work on plantations, mines, and other industrial operations. Landiron was a term used to refer to enslaved African American slaves who worked for their owners on cotton plantations in the United States from the late 1