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Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave

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The compelling story of a slave, owned by the writer’s ancestors, who became one of the most singular artists of the nineteenth century.

He is known today, as he was once then, only as Dave. His pots and storage jars were on a regular basis items, but on account of their beauty and massive size, and because Dave signed and inscribed many with poems, they now fetch six figures at auction. We know of no other slave artist who dared to put his name on his work, a dangerous advertisement of literacy.Fascinated by the man and by this troubling circle of relatives history, Leonard Todd moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, South Carolina, where his ancestors had established a thriving pottery industry in the early 1800s. Todd studied every of Dave’s poems for biographical clues, which he pieced in conjunction with local records and circle of relatives letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave’s life―a story of creative triumph in the course of slavery. Many of Dave’s astounding jars are found now in The united states’s finest museums. 8 pages of color; 31 black & white

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