- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
- Date
- before 1863
- Medium
- brick and cement mortar
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 2 3/4 × 9 1/16 × 4 3/16 in. (7 × 23 × 10.6 cm)
- Description
- A brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, sand struck molded, fired brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R160], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint along the stretcher edge of one of a brick’s faces. All the bricks’ surfaces are covered with patches of Portland cement mortar. There a significant loss along one stretcher edge of the brick and air bubble pitting on the all of the surfaces.
- Place used
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Place collected
- Charleston, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Buildings and Structures
- Topic
- American South
- Architecture
- Building Arts
- Skilled labor
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2017.108.21.11
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




