Fascinated by the man known only as Dave--a slave who had inscribed clay pots with poems and signed his name to them--Todd has pieced together local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life. Illustrations throughout.
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Fascinated by the man known only as Dave--a slave who had inscribed clay pots with poems and signed his name to them--Todd has pieced together local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life. Illustrations throughout.
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Add this copy of Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter to cart. $18.52, good condition, Sold by Tamworth Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Antonio, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Good in very good dust jacket. Binding has partially split at the last page. All pages are firmly attached and the book can be read as normal. INSCRIBED and signed by the author. No markings or highlights. Jacket and hardcover have very light wear.... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Carolina Clay: the Life and Legend of the Slave Potter to cart. $26.25, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by W. W. Norton and Co.
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VG+/VG+: In excellent condition, with tight binding and clean pages. Three-quarter brown casebound book with the spine in a dark brown and the title debossed on it in silver. There is a color pictorial matte dust jacket, with the title printed in black down a mostly tan spine. Pages: (17), 2-317. Contains sixteen pages of color plates, in addition to black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. "He is known today, as he was then, only as Dave. His jugs and storage jars were everyday items, but because of their beauty and sometimes massive size they are now highly sought after by collectors. Born about 1801, Dave was taught to turn pots in Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of alkaline-glazed pottery production. He also learned to read and write, in spite of South Carolina's long-standing fear of slave literacy. Even when the state made it a crime to teach a slave to write, Dave signed his pots and inscribed many of them with poems. Though his verses spoke simply of his daily experience, they were nevertheless powerful statements. He countered the slavery system not by writing words of protest but by daring to write at all. We know of no other slave artist who put his name on his work." "When Leonard Todd discovered that his family had owned Dave, he moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, where his ancestors had established the first potteries in the area. Todd studied each of Dave's poems for biographical clues, which he pieced together with local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave's life-a story of creative triumph in the midst of oppression. Many of Dave's astounding jars are found now in America's finest museums, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Charleston Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston."
Add this copy of Carolina Clay: the Life and Legend of the Slave Potter to cart. $48.30, new condition, Sold by MissVinoBooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Elk Grove Village,, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Carolina Clay: the Life and Legend of the Slave Potter to cart. $58.20, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Add this copy of Carolina Clay? the Life and Legend of the Slave Potter to cart. $120.83, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company.
