After discovering that they are the descendants of Dave the Potter, a famous Black potter who created masterpieces while enslaved in the 1800s, one family is asking why they have not seen the millions ...

“We think he is an unsung hero in Black history,” descendants of “Dave the Potter” said ...

Enslaved for most of his life, the 19th-century craftsman produced uncommonly large ceramic jars adorned by his poetic verses Jill Vaum Rothschild and Leslie Umberger David "Dave" Drake, Untitled ...

David Drake, his poem jars are part of ‘Hear Me Now,’ an exhibition of enslaved potters’ work. (Randy Vazquez/ Globe Staff) UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — In 1857, an enslaved potter in South Carolina’s Old ...