| A woodcarver and cabinetmaker, Thomas Day was born in Charleston, South Carolina as a free black in the early 19th Century. He studied in Washington DC and Boston, and by 1818, had a workshop in North Carolina. In 1823, he was living in Milton, North Carolina along the Dan River and purchased the Old yellow Brick Tavern, which he used as a workshop. Using white and slave apprentices, he made furniture on a large-scale basis, selling to some of the state's most prosperous white (showing 500 of 841 characters). |
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