Tucker told him he’d gone online and looked at the potential appeal of alkaline-glazed stoneware from historic Southern potteries. He’d stumbled onto a couple of articles on the history of these sought-after pieces. He’d had no idea that such pottery, innovative in its day and made with some of the best clay in the country, had been produced primarily by enslaved craftsmen. He hadn’t realized that so many practical devices and tools had been made with “slave labor,” as Tucker put it. “Who knew?” Tucker said. We knew, thought Ed.
