Partial 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 large partial 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 and edges. The header edges have diagonally sheared off from both sides of the brick, giving the fragment a trapezoidal profile. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R163], 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 has a large loss at bottom right corner and patches of grayish-white mortar on the surface. There are similar patches on both stretchers and a large patch on one of the headers.

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