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Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

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Detail of a jar made by the enslaved potter Dave (later known as David Drake).
Examining Storage Jars from the American South
Composition image: on the left Adriana Rizzo scraps the inside of a large jar, and on the right a detail shot of a jar made by the enslaved potter Dave (later known as David Drake) shows visible handwriting engraved into the surface surrounding the edge of the jar’s opening.
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The scientist Vaclav Krupicka of the University of Bordeaux prepares a sample for injection onto a scientific instrument called the ThermoFisher Orbitrap Eclipse Tribrid Mass Spectrometer pictured in the background.
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