The essence of African pottery is a deep-rooted connection to the earth. Craftsmen work with clay harvested from their local ...

A ceramic jug found in Germantown, PA turns out to be an example of a significant 19th century protective relic and piece of art — a face jug — created by African American slaves and freedmen ...

Northeast Georgia families have been making pottery for two centuries. In the early 1800s, they started making face jugs, an art form that originated with enslaved African Americans and which ...