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Author : Andrea Cheng
Release : 2013
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Etched in Clay by : Andrea Cheng
Download or read book Etched in Clay written by Andrea Cheng. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Dave the Potter, an enslaved man and talented potter who carved poetry on his pottery.
Author : Andrea Cheng
Release : 2018-03-06
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 075/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Etched in Clay by : Andrea Cheng
Download or read book Etched in Clay written by Andrea Cheng. This book was released on 2018-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometime around 1815, an enslaved young man named Dave was brought to Edgefield, South Carolina, the center of a pottery-producing area known for the alkaline glazes used on the stoneware. Dave was taught how to turn pots and jars on a pottery wheel by one of his first owners. As Dave's talent flourished, he created pieces of great beauty and often massive size. He also somehow learned to read and write, in spite of South Carolina's strongly-held fear of slave literacy. And then Dave did something even more incredible--he began to sign his jars and carve many of them with sayings and poems that reflected his daily life and experiences. He spoke out against slavery not by protesting or revolting, but by daring to write at all. Andrea Cheng has crafted a biography in verse as beautiful as one of Dave's jars. In simple, powerful words, including some of Dave's original writings, we learn his extraordinary story of courage, creative inspiration, and triumph.
Author : Leonard Todd
Release : 2008
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 567/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Carolina Clay by : Leonard Todd
Download or read book Carolina Clay written by Leonard Todd. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Laban Carrick Hill
Release : 2010-09-07
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dave the Potter by : Laban Carrick Hill
Download or read book Dave the Potter written by Laban Carrick Hill. This book was released on 2010-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
Author : Jill Kelly
Release : 2013-01-22
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 292/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Etched...Upon My Heart by : Jill Kelly
Download or read book Etched...Upon My Heart written by Jill Kelly. This book was released on 2013-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are made up of moments. Some we hope to remember forever and some we long to forget. But it's the tapestry of these moments that come together to write the story God is telling through each of our lives. In ETCHED . . . UPON MY HEART, Jill Kelly shares some of the unforgettable moments in her life-some sorrowful, others filled with joy-as a "living epistle" to her daughters. Kelly's raw and honest reflections provide encouragement and inspiration for women and mothers who long to pass on hard-won knowledge of God's steadfast love and healing grace to their children. As she writes, "God will break our hearts, but He will hold the pieces. He will cradle us and redeem every tear we cry." Although great personal pain informs these pages, Kelly's story is ultimately one of forgiveness, reconciliation, and hope. Through the moments in time that Jill Kelly recounts, you will recognize the daily reality and eternal value of God's plan for your own life.
