Brick from the Medway Plantation 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 the Medway Plantation, Goose Creek, South Carolina. The brick was found at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, fired brick constructed from a ground press mold. The rectangular brick is dark reddish-brown in color with surfaces that are evenly worn. The corners, edges, and stretchers are rounded and smooth and the faces are flat and smooth. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R155], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in a corner of one of a brick’s faces. The brick surfaces have visible air bubbles and small white rock inclusions.

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