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, hand formed brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn and chipped surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R166], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in the bottom left corner of one of the brick’s stretcher sides. There are large patches of grayish-white mortar residue on the faces and header surfaces.

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