David drake biography
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About Me
A picture of my wife Jo and me, March 1970
I was born on September 24, 1945, in stad i usa, Iowa. In 1967 inom graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in History (with honors) and Latin; married my wife Jo (one son, Jonathan, born 1973); and entered Duke lag School. inom was drafted out of law school and served in the army 1969-71, spending most of 1970 as an interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the Blackhorse, in Vietnam and Cambodia.
I returned, finished lag school, and spent eight years as Assistant Town Attorney of Chapel Hill, NC. In 1980 inom resigned and drove a city bus part-time for a year while inom did more writing. Since 1981 I’ve been a fulltime freelance writer.
I sold my first story (a really bad Lovecraftian pastiche) to August Derleth of Arkham House in 1966 while inom was an undergraduate. inom continued to sell stories in lag school, the army, and while working as an attorney. In 1979 my first book, the military SF collection Hammer’s Slammers,
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David Drake (potter)
19th-century ceramic artist from the United States
David Drake (c. 1800 – c. 1870s), also known as "Dave Pottery" and "Dave the Potter", was an Americanpotter who lived in Edgefield, South Carolina. An enslaved African American, Drake spent most of his life working for his masters, but became free at the end of the American Civil War.[1] He is thought to have died in the 1870s.
Drake produced alkaline-glazed stonewarejugs between the 1820s and the 1870s. He often signed his works "Dave", and he is recognized as the first enslaved potter to inscribe his work.[1] Drake inscribed his work with poetry, often using rhyming couplets,[2] as well as his signature.[3][4][5] During the time in which he was working, most enslaved people were illiterate, often as a result of anti-literacy laws, making his inscriptions particularly notable.
Life
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Prolific David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, was an enslaved artist born on a plantation in North Carolina in 1801. He toiled the soil and labored on several plantations and, throughout his lifetime, was sold or traded by a number of plantation owners. Many of his family members were also separated from him through this inhumane process. By 1858, Drake, now in his 50s, ended up in the Edgefield District of South Carolina on the Savannah River north of Augusta. At that time, he had become the property of Harvey Drake, the publisher of the local newspaper the Edgefield Hive. By this point, Drake was recognized for his pottery creations by Dr. Abner Landrum, a plantation owner who also owned Landrums’ potteries.
Between 1834 and 1866, David Drake, who had lost a foot in a train accident, had created at least 40,000 functional alkaline ceramic glaze pots, some of which could hold as many as 30 gallons. Despite legal prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read