The 2023 volume of Ceramics in America is filled with content of interest to students of American ceramics history. The 2023 volume of Ceramics in America is filled with content of interest to students of American ceramics history. The articles cover a wide range of topics and regions, including ceramics made in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Virginia. Of particular importance is the analysis of a small porcelain snuff box from the so-called “A”-marked group of porcelains made in London ca. 1745 from china clay obtained in America’s Cherokee Territory. A featured essay on the remarkable ceramics of John Wesley Carpenter offers for the first time an in-depth look at this nineteenth-century potter, who worked in the back country of North Carolina and Virginia. Several articles present thematic discussions about historic ceramics made and used to promote the abolition of slavery in both America and England. The use of ceramics to effect social change continues to this day, as is illustrated in the words and works of ceramic artist David Mack of Baltimore, Maryland. Table of Contents Southern Hoodoo and the Dr. Peter Davis Ring Bottle Robert Hunter "From Death to Life": Slavery and Emancipation in the British West Indies as Revealed on a Child's Plate Daniel S. Sousa Geochemical Investigation of a Ceramic Snuff Box: ‘A’-Mark English Porcelain Attribution confirmed W. Ross Ramsay, Howell G. M. Edwards, Errol Manners, and Ashley Howkins Earth, Fire, and the Abolitionist: The Emancipation of Clay for Social Change David Mack Hidden Histories: The Case of Elijah Lovejoy and the Production of Anti-slavery Ceramics Neil Ewins English Delft for Colonial Tavern Tables in King William County and Williamsburg, Virginia Elizabeth Donison, Ned Rose and Angelika Kuettner The Commodore, the President, and the Birth of the United States Navy: A Tale of Two Chinese Porcelain Punch Bowls Amanda Creekman Isaac and Captain Charles T. Creekman Souvenirs of Fantasy: George Ohr’s Clay Tokens Ellen J. Lippert John Wesley Carpenter: Tradition, Innovation, and Adaptation in a Shattered Post-Civil War South Stephen Compton At the End of a Rope: A Stoneware Jar and Political Frustration Elyse D. Gerstenecker, Robert Hunter, and Kurt Russ A Chelsea Keramic Art Works Vase with a Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison James Kaufman Robert Hunter is an archaeologist and ceramics historian ­living in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Editor Ronald W. Fuchs II is a ceramics curator and historian. He lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.