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 cast brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R162], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in the bottom left corner one of the brick fragment’s faces. The same face is darkened to a gray/black color along the left header edge. A grayish-white, sandy mortar covers two-thirds of the other face and half of both of the stretchers. Two corners have chipped off from the same side of one of the headers. The bricks’ headers have small patches of mortar residue.

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