- 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: 4 1/2 × 9 7/16 × 5 3/4 in. (11.5 × 24 × 14.6 cm)
- Description
- A brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, brick composed of crushed aggregate with red clay, heavy deposits of grayish-white mortar, and a red terracotta fragment. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R161], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in the bottom left corner of a stretcher side. There is a thick layer of mortar on the top face of this brick and a thick chunk of it is adhered to the stretcher side with the catalog number. Attached to the top of the thick chunk of mortar is a red terracotta fragment. There is thick layer of mortar on the other face and green paint splatters on one of the brick’s headers.
- 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
- 2017.108.21.12
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




