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Colonoware pitcher

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Photograph of a colonoware pitcher, uncovered in South Carolina in the 1990s, which dates to around 1740. Colonoware, a form of earthenware pottery, was made by African Americans on plantations in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
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Keywords

  1. African American Art
  2. African American Folk Art
  3. African Americans
  4. Antiquities
  5. Pitchers
  6. Pottery
  7. South Carolina

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