There is nothing more valuable than a collection of library quality reference materials to become an authority in any field of collection. Fortunately, literature on the subject of Southern stoneware and Edgefield pottery have become more available in recent years. Below is a list of books and publications on the subject and hopefully this will help these references find their way into your library!
Agha, Andrew, and Nicole M. Isenbarger (2011). "Recently Discovered Marked Colonoware from Dean Hall Plantation, Berkeley County, South Carolina," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology45(2): 184-187.
Baldwin, Cinda K. (1993). Great & Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.
Burton, Orville Vernon (1985). In My Father's House are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.
Burton, Orville Vernon (1998). Edgefield, South Carolina, Home of Dave the Potter. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, edited by Jill B. Koverman, pp. 39-52. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Castille, George J. (1988). Archaeological Survey of Alkaline-Glazed Pottery Kiln Sites in the Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Report submitted to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. McKissick Museum and South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Chaney, Michael A. (2008). Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
de Groft, Aaron (1998). Eloquent Vessels/Politics of Power: The Heroic Stoneware of "Dave the Potter." Winterthur Portfolio 33(4): 249-260.
Fennell, Christopher (2011). "Literate Inversions and Cultural Metaphors in Edgefield Stoneware," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen.Historical Archaeology 45(2): 156-162.
Ferguson, Leland G. (2011). "Crosses, Secrets, and Lies: A Response to J. W. Joseph," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 163-165.
Goldberg, Arthur F., and James P. Witowski (2006). "Beneath His Magic Touch: The Dated Vessels of the African-American Slave Dave," in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 58-92. Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI.
Greer, Georgeanna (1981). American Stonewares, the Art and Craft of Utilitarian Potters. Schiffer Publishing, Exton, PA.
Gundaker, Grey (2011). "The Kongo Cosmogram in Historical Archaeology and the Moral Compass of Dave the Potter," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 176-183.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1986). South Carolina Potters and Their Wares: The Landrums of Pottersville. South Carolina Antiquities 18(1&2): 47-62.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1989). South Carolina Potters and Their Wares: The History of Pottery Manufacture in Edgefield District’s Big Horse Section, Part I (ca. 1810-1825). South Carolina Antiquities 21(1&2): 11-30.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1998). Archaeological Findings. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, edited by Jill B. Koverman, pp. 72-81. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Horne, Catherine W., editor (1990). Crossroads of Clay: The Southern Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Tradition. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Joseph, J. W. (2007). One More Look into the Water -- Colonoware in South Carolina Rivers and Charleston's Market Economy. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter June, University of Illinois website, http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0607/news0607.html#2.
Joseph, J. W. (2011). "'All of Cross' -- African Potters, Marks, and Meanings of Folk Pottery in Edgefield District, South Carolina," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 134-155.
Kenline, Brooke (2012). Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South. Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Koverman, Jill B., editor (1998). "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Koverman, Jill B. (1998). Dave's Verse as Social Response. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, Jill B.
Koverman, editor, pp. 82-92. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Montgomery, Charles J. (1908). Survivors from the Cargo of the Negro Slave Yacht "Wanderer." American Anthropologist 10(4): 611-623, with a note by Frederick Starr.
Mills, Robert (1825). Atlas of the State of South Carolina. F. Lucas, Baltimore, MD.
Mills, Robert (1826). Statistics of South Carolina. Hurlbut & Lloyd, Charleston, SC.
National Park Service (2009). National Register of Historic Places. Pottersville, Edgefield County, South Carolina, Record No. 141573, National Register Information System No. 75001698, entered Jan. 17, 1975. National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, Washington, DC., website http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov.
Newell, Mark M., and Peter Lenzo (2006). Making Faces: Archaeological Evidence of African-American Face Jug Production. In Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 123-138. Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI.
South, Stanley (1991). Early Research and Publications on Alkaline-Glazed Pottery. South Carolina Antiquities 23(1&2): 43-45.
Steen, Carl (1994). An Archaeological Survey of the Pottery Production Sites in the Old Edgefield District of South Carolina. Report submitted to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Diachronic Research Foundation, Columbia, SC.
Steen, Carl (2011c). "Cosmograms, Crosses, and Xs: Context and Inference," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology45(2): 166-175.
Thompson, Robert F. (1969). African Influence on the Art of the United States. InBlack Studies in the University: A Symposium, edited by Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster, and Donald H. Ogilvie, pp. 112-170. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Thompson, Robert F. (1983). Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. Random House, New York, NY.
Thompson, Robert F. (1990). Kongo Influences on African-American Artistic Culture. In Africanisms in American Culture, edited by Joseph E. Holloway, pp. 148-184. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
Todd, Leonard (2008). Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave. W. W. Norton, New York, NY.
Vlach, John M. (1990a). The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.
Vlach, John M. (1990b). International Encounters at the Crossroads of Clay: European, Asian, and African Influences on Edgefield Pottery. In Crossroads of Clay: The Southern Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Tradition, edited by Catherine W. Horne, pp. 17-39. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Vlach, John M. (1991). By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Wells, Tom H. (1967). The Slave Ship "Wanderer." University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.
Baldwin, Cinda K. (1993). Great & Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.
Burton, Orville Vernon (1985). In My Father's House are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.
Burton, Orville Vernon (1998). Edgefield, South Carolina, Home of Dave the Potter. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, edited by Jill B. Koverman, pp. 39-52. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Castille, George J. (1988). Archaeological Survey of Alkaline-Glazed Pottery Kiln Sites in the Old Edgefield District, South Carolina. Report submitted to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. McKissick Museum and South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Chaney, Michael A. (2008). Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
de Groft, Aaron (1998). Eloquent Vessels/Politics of Power: The Heroic Stoneware of "Dave the Potter." Winterthur Portfolio 33(4): 249-260.
Fennell, Christopher (2011). "Literate Inversions and Cultural Metaphors in Edgefield Stoneware," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen.Historical Archaeology 45(2): 156-162.
Ferguson, Leland G. (2011). "Crosses, Secrets, and Lies: A Response to J. W. Joseph," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 163-165.
Goldberg, Arthur F., and James P. Witowski (2006). "Beneath His Magic Touch: The Dated Vessels of the African-American Slave Dave," in Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 58-92. Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI.
Greer, Georgeanna (1981). American Stonewares, the Art and Craft of Utilitarian Potters. Schiffer Publishing, Exton, PA.
Gundaker, Grey (2011). "The Kongo Cosmogram in Historical Archaeology and the Moral Compass of Dave the Potter," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 176-183.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1986). South Carolina Potters and Their Wares: The Landrums of Pottersville. South Carolina Antiquities 18(1&2): 47-62.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1989). South Carolina Potters and Their Wares: The History of Pottery Manufacture in Edgefield District’s Big Horse Section, Part I (ca. 1810-1825). South Carolina Antiquities 21(1&2): 11-30.
Holcombe, Joe L., and Fred E. Holcombe (1998). Archaeological Findings. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, edited by Jill B. Koverman, pp. 72-81. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Horne, Catherine W., editor (1990). Crossroads of Clay: The Southern Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Tradition. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Joseph, J. W. (2007). One More Look into the Water -- Colonoware in South Carolina Rivers and Charleston's Market Economy. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter June, University of Illinois website, http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0607/news0607.html#2.
Joseph, J. W. (2011). "'All of Cross' -- African Potters, Marks, and Meanings of Folk Pottery in Edgefield District, South Carolina," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology 45(2): 134-155.
Kenline, Brooke (2012). Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South. Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Koverman, Jill B., editor (1998). "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Koverman, Jill B. (1998). Dave's Verse as Social Response. In "I Made This Jar . . ." The Life and Works of the Enslaved African-American Potter, Dave, Jill B.
Koverman, editor, pp. 82-92. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Montgomery, Charles J. (1908). Survivors from the Cargo of the Negro Slave Yacht "Wanderer." American Anthropologist 10(4): 611-623, with a note by Frederick Starr.
Mills, Robert (1825). Atlas of the State of South Carolina. F. Lucas, Baltimore, MD.
Mills, Robert (1826). Statistics of South Carolina. Hurlbut & Lloyd, Charleston, SC.
National Park Service (2009). National Register of Historic Places. Pottersville, Edgefield County, South Carolina, Record No. 141573, National Register Information System No. 75001698, entered Jan. 17, 1975. National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service, Washington, DC., website http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov.
Newell, Mark M., and Peter Lenzo (2006). Making Faces: Archaeological Evidence of African-American Face Jug Production. In Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter, pp. 123-138. Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI.
South, Stanley (1991). Early Research and Publications on Alkaline-Glazed Pottery. South Carolina Antiquities 23(1&2): 43-45.
Steen, Carl (1994). An Archaeological Survey of the Pottery Production Sites in the Old Edgefield District of South Carolina. Report submitted to the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Diachronic Research Foundation, Columbia, SC.
Steen, Carl (2011c). "Cosmograms, Crosses, and Xs: Context and Inference," in "Crosses to Bear: Cross Marks as African Symbols in Southern Pottery," thematic forum of articles edited by Charles R. Ewen. Historical Archaeology45(2): 166-175.
Thompson, Robert F. (1969). African Influence on the Art of the United States. InBlack Studies in the University: A Symposium, edited by Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster, and Donald H. Ogilvie, pp. 112-170. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
Thompson, Robert F. (1983). Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy. Random House, New York, NY.
Thompson, Robert F. (1990). Kongo Influences on African-American Artistic Culture. In Africanisms in American Culture, edited by Joseph E. Holloway, pp. 148-184. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
Todd, Leonard (2008). Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave. W. W. Norton, New York, NY.
Vlach, John M. (1990a). The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.
Vlach, John M. (1990b). International Encounters at the Crossroads of Clay: European, Asian, and African Influences on Edgefield Pottery. In Crossroads of Clay: The Southern Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Tradition, edited by Catherine W. Horne, pp. 17-39. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.
Vlach, John M. (1991). By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Wells, Tom H. (1967). The Slave Ship "Wanderer." University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.