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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 564698, member: 5066"]This is all totally not correct. Thomas Day, a free back man from Virginia set up a cabinet shop in Milton NC in 1827.</p><p>"Scholars estimate that Day employed five white and at least seven black workers in his workshop. Although some scholars have attributed certain lower-quality pieces of furniture to Day himself, it is more likely, according to other researchers, that some of the pieces sold by Day's workshop were produced by his less-skilled, apprenticed craftsmen.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:12-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:12-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:3-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:3-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a>:170 To craft his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_veneer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_veneer" rel="nofollow">veneered</a> cabinets and other furniture pieces, including beds and bookshelves, Day worked with hand tools in his earlier years, but in the 1840s he introduced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine" rel="nofollow">steam power</a> into his workshop. This steam power quickened Day's crafting process and increased production levels, because Day could easily replace structural pieces made from standardized design templates using steam power, and could have ready-made elements for when orders were placed.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:8-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:8-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a>:219<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:2-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:2-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:10-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:10-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-15" rel="nofollow">[15]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16" rel="nofollow">[16]</a> Notably, scholars today can often pinpoint which pieces of furniture were created around this time because they are partially hand-crafted and partially machine-fabricated, indicating that the steam power was new and still being integrated into the crafting process.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16" rel="nofollow">[16]</a>:86–87"</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering this was a black man in the south pre civil war in a state where 96% of all cabinet shops were owned by whites at that time, it's a bit far fetched to assume Day was the only furniture shop that had steam power. Indeed, it's far more likely that a cabinet shop that didn't have steam power by the 1840s was not going to be around for long.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 564698, member: 5066"]This is all totally not correct. Thomas Day, a free back man from Virginia set up a cabinet shop in Milton NC in 1827. "Scholars estimate that Day employed five white and at least seven black workers in his workshop. Although some scholars have attributed certain lower-quality pieces of furniture to Day himself, it is more likely, according to other researchers, that some of the pieces sold by Day's workshop were produced by his less-skilled, apprenticed craftsmen.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:12-11'][11][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:3-6'][6][/URL]:170 To craft his [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_veneer']veneered[/URL] cabinets and other furniture pieces, including beds and bookshelves, Day worked with hand tools in his earlier years, but in the 1840s he introduced [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine']steam power[/URL] into his workshop. This steam power quickened Day's crafting process and increased production levels, because Day could easily replace structural pieces made from standardized design templates using steam power, and could have ready-made elements for when orders were placed.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:8-4'][4][/URL]:219[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:2-3'][3][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:10-5'][5][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-15'][15][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16'][16][/URL] Notably, scholars today can often pinpoint which pieces of furniture were created around this time because they are partially hand-crafted and partially machine-fabricated, indicating that the steam power was new and still being integrated into the crafting process.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Day_(North_Carolina)#cite_note-:20-16'][16][/URL]:86–87" Considering this was a black man in the south pre civil war in a state where 96% of all cabinet shops were owned by whites at that time, it's a bit far fetched to assume Day was the only furniture shop that had steam power. Indeed, it's far more likely that a cabinet shop that didn't have steam power by the 1840s was not going to be around for long.[/QUOTE]
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