Manufactured by
Unidentified
Owned by
Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
Date
18th-19th century
Medium
brick and cement mortar
Dimensions
H x W x D: 2 13/16 × 9 1/16 × 4 1/2 in. (7.2 × 23 × 11.5 cm)
Description
An English brick found in the Heyward Family Cemetery near Grahamville, South Carolina. It is a solid style, sandstruck brick. The brick is dark reddish brown in color with small deposits of white residue on the brick surfaces. The brick is misshapen and has a roughly right trapezoidal shape. The Old Slave Mart Museum catalog number, [R154], is handwritten in black ink over a small rectangular patch of white paint in a corner of the narrower of the brick’s faces. The other brick face is covered with heavy grayish-white mortar. The brick’s misshapen stretcher side is coarse and irregular. And the overall surface of the brick is heavily weathered and worn on all sides with minor losses along the edges.
Place used
Grahamville, Jasper County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Place collected
Grahamville, Jasper County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Slavery and Freedom Objects
Buildings and Structures
Type
blocks (shaped masses)
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
2017.108.21.5
Restrictions & Rights
No known copyright restrictions
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
GUID
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd59e357f08-50d4-40ec-89c2-3214e56212b9

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