Title The words and wares of David Drake : revisiting I made this jar and the legacy of Edgefield pottery / edited by Jill Beute Koverman and Jane Przybysz

Published Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- THE WORDS AND WARES OF DAVID DRAKE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreword to I Made This Jar (1998) -- Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE I MADE THIS JAR -- I Made This Jar -- Searching for Messages in Clay: What Do We Really Know About the Poetic Potter, Dave? -- Edgefield, South Carolina: Home to Dave the Potter -- Dave the Potter and the Origins of African American Poetry -- Talking Jars: Dave and Larger Traditions of Pot-Poetry -- Archaeological Findings Related to Dave at Edgefield Pottery Sites Dave's Verse as Social Response -- Catalog of Exhibition Objects, I Made This Jar, McKissick Museum, 1998 -- PART TWO I MADE THIS JAR REVISITED -- There Once Was a Man Named Dave . . . -- Black Artists as Cultural Historians: Jonathan Green, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Drake -- Embodying Dave: Performance and the Creation of an Artistic, Para-Historical Narrative -- Marking Time: The Dated Vessels of David Drake -- The Last Dave Pot? -- Who Were the Potters in the Old Edgefield District? -- "The Unknown Potter": Continuing the Search for Dave -- Appendixes Appendix A: Amendments to the Original Exhibition Catalog Text -- Appendix B: Edgefield District African American Potters and Associated Laborers (1790-1900) -- Appendix C: Inventory of Dated Vessels -- Appendix D: Known Inscriptions Incised by and Attributed to David Drake -- Notes -- Index Summary A celebration of an enslaved potter's art and the poetry he inscribed in clay despite anti-literacy laws Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 10, 2023) Subject Dave, active 1834-1864 SUBJECT Dave, active 1834-1864. fast (OCoLC)fst01815017 Subject Stoneware -- South Carolina -- Edgefield -- History -- 19th century African American pottery -- South Carolina -- Edgefield -- History -- 19th century ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General African American pottery. Stoneware. South Carolina -- Edgefield. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Koverman, Jill Beute, 1968- editor. Przybysz, Jane, 1954- editor. ISBN 9781643363226 1643363220

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