Bound by Brick Exhibit

From the venue:

Atlanta-based public historian and storyteller Kimberly Renee will debut Bound By Brick, a powerful two-part virtual exhibit that explores this brutal post-Emancipation labor system and the people and companies that profited from it.

A digital memorial and act of remembrance, Bound By Brick uses multiple mediums, including interactive 3D art, to bring to light the system of racialized incarceration and the human cost behind one of Georgia’s most infamous industrial operations between the 1880s and early 1900s: the notorious Chattahoochee Brick Company.

• Part I is free to the public thanks to financial support from the National Center for Civil and Human Rights as a part of its Truth + Transformation Fellowship. Part I offers a historical overview of convict leasing at Chattahoochee Brick, those at its helm, and the long-standing impact.
• Part II, available for free on Juneteenth, includes an interactive, first-of-its-kind searchable database of individuals forced to work at Chattahoochee Brick and surrounding labor camps. It also highlights still-standing organizations that benefited from the practice. After June 19, access to Part II will be ticketed.