An 1858 stoneware churn inscribed by David Drake, a slave potter in Edgefield, S.C. Charlton Hall Galleries. Source: The New York Times
August 30, 2012–In a moving editorial in the New York Times, Eve. M. Kahn discusses the emergence of newly discovered pottery and fragments of vessels by David Drake, an enslaved 19th-century potter in Edgefield, South Carolina. Drake signed his works “Dave” and sometimes inscribed them with poems that were odes to the “noble jar” or longing to see the stars or his long lost family. Read the full article here.
