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Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

by Patricia Phillips Marshall

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Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural woodwork still represent the best of nineteenth-century craftsmanship and aesthetics. In this lavishly illustrated book, Patricia Phillips Marshall and Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll show how Day plotted a show more carefully charted course for success in antebellum southern society. show less

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2011)

North Carolina Book Awards (Winner – Nonfiction – 2010)

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Richard Hampton Jenrette Series in Architecture and the Decorative Arts

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Canonical title: Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color

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Languages: English
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Published: 2010
Genres: Nonfiction, Art & Design, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 749.092
LCC: NK2439 .D38 .M37

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