Archaeologies while looking around have found earthen pottery.
Seeming to be crude when compared to to the stoneware vessels commonly in use in euro america households, these items were initially presumed to have been made by Native Americans of the colonial period who perished shortly after the arrival of the first European settlers. Initially labeled as Colono ware, it is now clear that many of these pieces were fashioned by Africans. Consequently these rough earthenware vessels should be recognized as Afro-Colono pieces if not, in some cases, simply as examples of African pottery. During the colonial era South Carolinas enslaved blacks outnumbered white people by a ratio of four to one and, given this numerical dominance, planters
Seeming to be crude when compared to to the stoneware vessels commonly in use in euro america households, these items were initially presumed to have been made by Native Americans of the colonial period who perished shortly after the arrival of the first European settlers. Initially labeled as Colono ware, it is now clear that many of these pieces were fashioned by Africans. Consequently these rough earthenware vessels should be recognized as Afro-Colono pieces if not, in some cases, simply as examples of African pottery. During the colonial era South Carolinas enslaved blacks outnumbered white people by a ratio of four to one and, given this numerical dominance, planters