- 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: 3 1/16 × 9 9/16 × 5 3/16 in. (7.8 × 24.3 × 13.2 cm)
- Description
- A brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Charleston, South Carolina. It is a solid style, sand cast brick. The rectangular brick is dark reddish brown in color with worn surfaces, edges, and corners. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R162], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in the bottom left corner one of the brick fragment’s faces. The same face is darkened to a gray/black color along the left header edge. A grayish-white, sandy mortar covers two-thirds of the other face and half of both of the stretchers. Two corners have chipped off from the same side of one of the headers. The bricks’ headers have small patches of mortar residue.
- 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
- 2017.108.21.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




