Pottery from our State

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Pottery from our State
Mitchell 2000
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• Daniel Seagle
• 1805 - 1867
• Four-gallon Jug

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• Charles Boyd Craven
• Ring Jug
• 1978

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• Face jugs are believed to have come from African
  potters brought to the United States through
  slavery.
• In Newton, NC, Jonas Bost owned two large
  plantations and a hotel.

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Newton Slavery

• Jonas Bost owned a hotel in Newton.
• The hotel served as a trading block for slaves.
• Why was slavery important to the South?

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Slavery

• The economy of the South depended on cotton,
  which was picked by slave labor.
• What would have happened to the economy of NC
  without slave labor?

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• Unknown Artist
• Face Jug

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• Burlon B. Craig
• Five Gallon Face Jug One-Gallon Face Jug,
• 1980

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• Dorothy Cole Auman
• Face Jug
• 1970

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Not from NC...

• Portrait Bottle Peru.

How is this similar or different from NC Face
Jugs?