Ebook {Epub PDF} Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave by Leonard Todd

CAROLINA CLAY is the compelling story of a slave, owned by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century. LEONARD TODD www.doorway.ru Information on this page is condensed from Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter, Dave by Leonard Todd (W.W. Norton, Fall ). The jug shown at the top of this page is in a private collection. The photograph by Gavin Ashworth is courtesy of Ceramics in America. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.

Dave's grave might, in fact, have been covered with sherds of a jar that he himself had made. Perhaps his final marker was a fragment of stoneware with "Dave" written on it in his own hand. Information on this page is condensed from Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter, Dave by Leonard Todd (W.W. Norton, Fall ). As Todd explains in his fascinating account, "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave," he became intrigued by a newspaper story about an exhibition of Dave's work, which. In this novelized biography in verse, Cheng limns the life of Dave (his only name), an enslaved nineteenth-century potter and poet. Owned by various members of the Landrum/Drake/Miles families, Dave became a master potter as a young man.

Driven by the chance discovery that his ancestors had enslaved Dave, Todd traveled to the heart of the antebellum South Carolina pottery industry to draw on local lore, archeological data, slave. CAROLINA CLAY is the compelling story of a slave, owned by the author's ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century. LEONARD TODD www.doorway.ru Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more.