Crafting Plantation Toys with Elvin Shields

In this installment of oral histories for NCPTT's Documentation of Slave Cabin and Tenant Farming Houses Project, we visited Oakland Plantation. There we sat with Elvin Shields as he sculpted a wire plantation toy, explaining in detail as he crafted. He went on to talk about the history of these plantation wire toys, how he made them while growing up on the ground of Oakland Plantation, as well as how he incorporates this craftmanship nowadays.
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