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Dr. Susan J. Rawles

About Dr. Susan J. Rawles

Dr. Susan J. Rawles is the Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Poem detail, David Drake, Doubled-handled Jug (Lewis J. Miles Factory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, South Carolina), 1840, stoneware with alkaline glaze, 44.13 x 35.24 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — Enslaved artist David Drake inscribed a poem onto this jug at a time when literacy among enslaved people was outlawed

Literacy and slavery: David Drake, Double-handled jug

by Dr. Susan J. Rawles and Dr. Steven Zucker

David Drake (Lewis J. Miles Factory, Horse Creek Valley, Edgefield District, South Carolina), 1840, stoneware with alkaline glaze, 44.13 x 35.24 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) — Enslaved artist David Drake inscribed a poem onto this jug at a time when literacy among enslaved people was outlawed

David Drake, Double-handled jug

by Dr. Susan J. Rawles and Dr. Steven Zucker