Listen "Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York"
Episode Synopsis
For nearly two hundred years, from his death in 1823, New York potter Thomas Commeraw was out of sight. In 2010 it finally became possible to positively identify him: as a prosperous free Black craftsman with a manufactory in Corlears Hook employing seven people, an enterprise that provided stiff competition to the legacy affairs of Pot Baker’s Hill in lower Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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