In the mid-nineteenth century a slave known to us only as Dave made beautiful large pots out of the Carolina clay, shaping them with wheel and coil, and signing some with a poem. Hill's poem and Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations show the making of such a pot, step by step, from the gathering and the mixing of the clay, through pulling the pot up from the mound on his wheel, finishing with coils and finally glaze.