Hear Me Now: The Black Potters Of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

Edited by Adrienne Spinozzi
with an interview with Simone Leigh and contributions by Michael J. Bramwell, Vincent Brown, Ethan W. Lasser, and Jason R. Young

Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the mid-nineteenth century,
this catalogue presents groundbreaking scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in and around Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable
works included are a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and incised verses on
many of his jars, even though literacy among enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the production, collection, dispersal, and reception…See More