Richard Potter: Pioneering African American Magician
Thank you, Pop Haydn, for reminding me about pathbreaking performer Richard Potter (1783-1835), whom I'd first encountered in books like Conjure Times: Black Magicians in America by Jim Haskins and Kathleen Benson, and Milbourne Christopher's Illustrated History of Magic. Potter is widely hailed as both the first American magician and the first African American magician […]