What is "colonoware"

Colonoware, which is alternately called Colono-Indian Ware, is a type of earthenware made and used along the east coast of North America from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries.

It was first identified by the British archaeologist Ivor Noël Hume, who published his findings in 1962. He referred to it as Colono-Indian Ware, believing that it had been developed by Native Americans, who then sold it for the use of African American slaves.