List of Maryland and Delaware slave traders
This is a list of slave traders working in Maryland and Delaware from 1776 until 1865:
- G. T. Allen[1]
- David Anderson, Kentucky[2] and Baltimore (?)[3]
- John Blackwell, Bladensburg[4]
- Joseph Bush, Salisbury, Md.[5]
- Bernard M. Campbell, Walter L. Campbell, and relations, Baltimore[6] and New Orleans,[7]
- Col. Benjamin Chambers, Baltimore[8]
- George Davis, Maryland[9]
- Jeff Davis, kidnapper, Maryland and Florida[10]
- John N. Denning, Baltimore[11][12][13][14]
- Charles Dickinson, Maryland, Tennessee, and Louisiana[15]
- Jilson Dove, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland[16][17]
- Joseph S. Donovan, Baltimore[18][19][20][21][13]
- Green Harris Duke, Baltimore (as G. H. Duke with J. M. Wilson),[22] Frederick, Md.[23][24][25] and Georgia[26] (affiliate of Theophilus Freeman of Georgia)[27]
- Henry Fairbanks, Baltimore[19]
- Mass or Marsa or Marcy Fountain, Delaware, and Caroline County, and Queen Anne County, Md.[28][29][30][31][32][33]
- Mr. Fry, Delaware[34]
- John Gooding, Baltimore, importing from Africa to Cuba[35]
- Henry Gordon, Maryland and Mississippi[1][36]
- E. Guyton, Baltimore[16]
- William Harker, Baltimore[37] and Dorchester, Md.[38]
- O. C. and S. Y. Harris, Upper Marlboro, Md.[39]
- Octavius Harris, Calvert County[40][41]
- Joseph Johnson, Ebenezer Johnson & Patty Cannon, Northwest Fork Hundred, Delaware[42][43]
- A. E. Jones, Talbott County, Md.[2]
- Stephen Jones, Delaware and Maryland[44]
- Legg & Williams, Annapolis, Md.[45]
- F. McCann, Hagerstown, Md.[46]
- George Kephart, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia[47]
- William B. Petit[1]
- James Franklin Purvis (and Isaac F. Purvis), Baltimore[47]
- Joel Rimes, Maryland and Alabama[48]
- Roberson, Maryland and South Carolina[49]
- Lewis Scott, Baltimore[50]
- Henry F. Slatter, Baltimore and New Orleans[51]
- Hope H. Slatter, Baltimore[51]
- Jack Willison, Maryland and Alabama[52]
- Mr. Thompson, Baltimore and the lands of the Cherokee nation[53]
- J. M. Wilson, Baltimore and New Orleans[19]
- Lewis Winters, Baltimore[38]
- Austin Woolfolk, Baltimore[54]
- Joseph B. Woolfolk, Eastern Shore, Maryland, and Natchez[55][56]
- Samuel Martin Woolfolk, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Natchez[57][56]
- C. A. Yeats, Port Tobacco, Md.[58]
See also
[edit]- History of slavery in Maryland
- History of slavery in Delaware
- List of District of Columbia slave traders
- List of slave traders of the United States
References
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- ^ "Bridgetown". Caroline County Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
- ^ "Samuel D. Burns letter". Anti-Slavery Bugle. 1848-07-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-05-24.
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- ^ "Bridgetown". Caroline County Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-10-05.
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- ^ "Was Committed". The Alexandria Herald. 1824-06-23. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
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- ^ "Affray and murder". Cherokee Phoenix, and Indians' Advocate. 1829-09-23. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
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- ^ "Queen of the Kidnappers". The Boston Globe. 1882-02-26. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
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