- 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 15/16 × 9 3/16 × 4 7/16 in. (7.4 × 23.3 × 11.2 cm)
- Description
- A large partial 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 and edges. The header edges have diagonally sheared off from both sides of the brick, giving the fragment a trapezoidal profile. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R163], 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 has a large loss at bottom right corner and patches of grayish-white mortar on the surface. There are similar patches on both stretchers and a large patch on one of the 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
- 2017.108.21.14
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




