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Stoneware Jar
1862
"I made this jar all of cross/If you dont repent, you will be lost"
These words were inscribed across the top of this alkaline-glazed stoneware jar by its maker, David Drake, a slave at Lewis Miles Plantation Pottery in South Carolina's Edgefield District. Drake's two-line poems--about religion, love, and life--proclaimed his ability to read and write, skills that were often forbidden among slaves.
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Marked "May 3, 1862/LM Dave" |
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