Setting: Time of Slavery
Characters: Dave
Theme: Slavery, Perseverance
Dave was a potter. He used clay from Big House Creek, and he would mix the clay with a big paddle. He would kick his potter's wheel to make it spin as fast as possible. He would form the clay into a tall jar by wrapping a big coil of clay into a jar shape and smoothing it out. While it dried, he made a glaze to withstand time. Before it was hardened, he wrote, "I wonder where is all my relation friendship to all- and, every nation." Dave always wrote poems on his pottery in spite of his slave life.
