African-American Slave Pottery Exhibit - 1Earth Antiques and Appraisals Magazine

A slave's story
Artifacts of American slavery are usually all the horror hardware that remind us of things we'd rather not think about. But within that nightmare there are some examples of individual achievement and accomplishment. The story of David Drake, a slave who lived in Edgefield, Delaware is told through his pottery and the poems inscribed on them.

"I made this jar...": The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, The Winterthur Museum, Edgefield, Delaware, Feb. 5 - June 25, 2002.Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum