Brick made by an enslaved person

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, sand struck molded, fired brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R160], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint along the stretcher edge of one of a brick’s faces. All the bricks’ surfaces are covered with patches of Portland cement mortar. There a significant loss along one stretcher edge of the brick and air bubble pitting on the all of the surfaces.

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