Flemish 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 Flemish brick from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina, made by an enslaved person. It is a solid style, fired terracotta brick. The rectangular brick is brownish red in color with grayish-white, Portland cement mortar residue on five (5) sides. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R152], 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 and there is a significant loss along the stretcher edge of the plain face of the brick. The brick is slightly curved towards the header ends.

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