The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has made a landmark decision to restore the rightful ownership of two ceramics made by an enslaved artist. Drake (ca. 1801–1870s) was enslaved in South Carolina’s Old ...

BOSTON — Inside the wide mouth of a stoneware jar, Daisy Whitner’s fingertips found a slight rise in the clay — a mark she hoped was a trace left behind by her ancestor, an enslaved potter who shaped ...

George Fatheree is an entrepreneur, attorney, and activist. He represented David Drake’s descendants in securing the restoration of ownership of two jars Drake created that were held by Boston’s ...

DANNY. THAT’S RIGHT. MARIA. THIS IS A FIRST OF ITS KIND MOVE HAPPENING HERE AT THE MFA, ALL CENTERING AROUND SCULPTURAL POTS MADE IN THE 1800S. YOU’RE LOOKING AT ONE OF THEM RIGHT HERE. THERE WAS JUST ...

One of Drake’s great-great-great-great grandsons, children’s book author and producer Yaba Baker, says the restitution process helps to answer his ancestor’s question seen on one of the vessels. In a ...

In the 1850s, David Drake spent his days making large clay pots, mostly used for food storage. But as an enslaved man in South Carolina, he was denied the right to own any of his work. Now, nearly two ...

(CNN) — In a very rare and likely precedent-setting agreement, the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston has agreed to return two works from 1857 by the Black potter David Drake, who made his ambitious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four letters on a jar are the only reason Pauline and Yaba Baker were able to trace back their ancestry to enslaved potter David ...