- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
- Date
- before 1863
- Medium
- paint on terracotta with brick, cement and mortar
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 3 7/8 × 24 × 12 in. (9.8 × 61 × 30.5 cm)
- Description
- A terracotta slab architectural element. The slab is roughly rectangular shaped and is composed of three layers: a black painted, fired, red clay slab face; an aggregate layer of crushed bricks and cement; and a layer of bricks covered with thick grayish-white mortar. A corner of the slab is missing. The mortar surface shows impressions of four missing bricks. The black slab covers most of the second layer but the second layer is partially exposed towards one of the narrow ends of the slab. Black paint drip marks run down one side of the long sides of the slab. Some black paint has flaked off the slab’s surface and there is a small drop of white paint in one corner. The crushed brick layer is composed of a variety of different bricks.
- 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
- Type
- slabs (flat objects)
- 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
- 2017.108.21.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




