Dave the Potter Artist, Poet, Slave by Laban Carrick Hill

Dave was a pottery maker who wrote poems on all of the pots he created, while working as a slave on a plantation back in the 1800s. This short picture book walks you through the process of creating one of these pots. Though very little is known about Dave the author Mr. Hill wrote a peom about his work and that poem was the premise for this book. What makes this book unique is the illustrations, they are multi faceted, with a lot of detail. You also find out in the end that no one knows what Dave actually looked like, so the illustrator Bryan Collier said, "I based my illustrations on a model who I felt reflected the spirit of Dave."