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Stoneware jar
1862
made by David Drake, Edgefield, South Carolina
Over three million enslaved blacks labored in the South by the 1800s. The majority were agricultural laborers, but a substantial number worked in craft trades as skilled artisans, providing their owners with necessary goods and services to use or to sell. Potter David Drake made ceramic storage vessels at his owner's plantation pottery for over thirty years. |