Brick made by an enslaved person
date: label: Date
content: before 1863
name: label: Manufactured by
content: Unidentified
label: Owned by
content: Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
label: Owned by
content: Acacia Historical Arts International, Inc., American, founded 1989
notes: label: Description
content: 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: label: Place used
content: Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
label: Place collected
content: Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Building Arts
label: Topic
content: Skilled labor
label: Topic
content: Slavery
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Buildings and Structures
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2017.108.21.21
objectType: label: Type
content: blocks (shaped masses)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: brick and cement mortar
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 2 1/2 × 8 3/8 × 4 1/8 in. (6.4 × 21.2 × 10.4 cm)