Museum object · Slavery and Freedom Objects
English brick from the Yeamans Hall land grant
18th-19th century
Hanahan, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
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.
An English brick found on land originally a part of Yeamans Hall land grant on Goose Creek in Hanahan, South Carolina. It is a solid style rectangular brick, hand molded with a press mold. The brick is dark reddish brown in color with small deposits of white residue on the brick surfaces. The plain brick face has a tide mark of a heavy white residue covering over half of the surface. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R153], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in a corner of one of the faces of the brick. The brick is heavily weathered and worn on all sides with minor losses along the edges and a chipped corner at one header. The brick surfaces all have minor pitting and air bubbles.
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Catalog reference: 2017.108.21.4
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