This stoneware jar was made in 1862 by David Drake, an enslaved Black potter working on Lewis Miles’ plantation pottery in the Edgefield District of South Carolina. In a state that outlawed literacy among people who were enslaved, Dave defiantly proclaimed his ability to read and write by signing his name and sometimes inscribing poetry on the stoneware vessels he made. Learn more about the jar and David Drake here: https://s.si.edu/3FZZVqI This is one of 25 Smithsonian objects now available to

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