THOMAS DAY, African American Furniture Maker, Barfield, Rodney and Patricia Marshall, — $10.00 pb
69pgs. Illus. 2005. Upper elementary, middle school, high school.
African American cabinetmaker Thomas Day (1801-1861), of Caswell County, N.C., had an outstanding business career and achieved remarkable social standing during the antebellum period. Day, a free black who lived in Milton, was educated, owned property and slaves, ran a successful business that made furniture for some of the state’s most prominent white citizens, and was a member of the Presbyterian church of Milton. In this selection the authors provide information about Day, his family and his cabinetmaking business set skillfully against the historical background of how other free blacks were treated in North Carolina and Virginia.
Curriculum Applications: 3rd,4th & 8th Grade Social Studies- biography, African American history

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