- 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 1/2 × 8 3/8 × 4 1/8 in. (6.4 × 21.2 × 10.4 cm)
- Description
- A brick, made by an enslaved person, from an unknown architectural structure in Port Royal, Virginia. It is a solid style, sand cast brick. The rectangular brick has heavily worn surfaces and edges. There are losses at all of the edges and corners. Half of the brick is discolored to a dark reddish brown lengthwise down the center of one of the brick’s faces; divided by a black line that runs down the center of the brick. The other half of the brick's face is reddish brown. Both headers have the same discoloration. One stretcher is reddish brown and the other is discolored to dark reddish brown. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R661], is handwritten vertically in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white painted in the top left corner of the discolored face. The other face is mostly covered in greyish white mortar residue and have a large crack running down the face just right of center.
- Place used
- Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
- Place collected
- Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia, 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
- 2017.108.21.21
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




