David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was born enslaved in Edgefield, South Carolina, at the turn of the nineteenth century. Despite laws prohibiting enslaved people from learning to read or write, Drake was literate and signed some of his pots, not only with his name and a date, but with verse?making a powerful statement of resistance.0The Words and Wares of David Drake collects multifaceted scholarship about Drake and his craft. Building on...