Square 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 square brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Port Royal, Virginia. It is a solid style, ground molded brick. The brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R660], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted in the top right corner of one of the brick’s faces. The same face has losses along the top edge, at the bottom left corner, and the surface near the bottom left corner. The other brick face is a brighter red color with a rough textured surface, and small losses at two corners.

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