Warren County Courthouse cistern double 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.

An elongated brick, or “double brick,” made by an enslaved person. The brick comes from the north-east cistern on the lawn of the Old Warren County Courthouse, Vicksburg, Mississippi. It is a solid style, extruded brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces and edges. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R167], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in the bottom left corner one of the brick's faces. The same face has a series of hand-extruded lines running horizontally across the surface. The other face has large patches of grayish-white mortar on the surface mostly near the header edges. There are smaller patches of mortar residue on the stretchers and one header. One header edge is slightly rounded.

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