David Drake was known for his large-sized historic pots that could hold 40 gallons of water. His large clay pots were also used for food storage in the 1850s. However, since he was an enslaved man in South Carolina, he wasn’t allowed to own any of his work.
After almost 200 years, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has made this happen by granting ownership of two of David Drake’s stoneware vessels to his descendants.
“Our great-great-great-grandfather never got to own one single piece of his own pottery or to pass them on to his children and grandchildren,” Pauline Baker, one of David Drake’s descendants, said in a statement cited by WBUR. “Today the museum does all it can to right that wrong.”…