Brick fragment from Goatfield Plantation

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 fragment from Goatfield Plantation, currently known as Brick House Plantation. The fragment is constructed from unfired mudbrick with tiny black rock inclusions. The dark reddish-brown fragment is bell-shaped with two flattened sides, and the surface is roughly textured and pockmarked with air bubbles. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R180], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint on the bottom, center of one side of the fragment. There are small patches of white on several of the fragment’s surfaces.

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