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1855 Colton map of Baltimore (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps) "NEGROES WANTED" and "CASH FOR NEGROES" ads placed by Hope H. Slatter, Joseph S. Donovan, B. M. Campbell, and William Harker (The Baltimore Sun, Nov. 14, 1843) This is a list of slave traders working in Maryland and Delaware from 1776 until 1865: G. T. Allen [1]
Slavery in Maryland lasted over 200 years, from its beginnings in 1642 when the first Africans were brought as slaves to St. Mary's City, to its end after the Civil War. While Maryland developed similarly to neighboring Virginia , slavery declined in Maryland as an institution earlier, and it had the largest free black population by 1860 of any ...
Thomas Ringgold IV (1715 – 1772) was an American lawyer, slave trader and merchant from Chestertown, Maryland.Along with his business partner Samuel Galloway III, the pair operated the largest slave trade operation in the Chesapeake Bay and would be responsible for importing one of the last shipments of slaves in the transatlantic slave trade to Maryland.
Slave smuggling took advantage of international and tribal boundaries to traffic slaves into the United States from Spanish North American and Caribbean colonies, and across the lands of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muskogee, Seminole, et al., but American-born or naturalized smugglers, Indigenous slave traders, and any American buyers of ...
Samuel Galloway III (1720 – 1785) was a planter, merchant and slave trader in colonial Anne Arundel County, Maryland.Alongside his partner Thomas Ringgold, Galloway became one of Maryland's most prolific slave traders, responsible for contracting the ship that brought one of the last shipments of slaves from Angola to Maryland during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Runaway slave reward in Maryland. Maryland did not begin as an "official" slave state, although the founders were possible slave traders. It began, as with the story of Mathias de Sousa, as a place that any person that arrived as an indentured servant, could become a free person after they had served the time of their indentureship.
Joseph S. Donovan (April 20, 1800 – April 15, 1861) was an American slave trader known for his slave jails in Baltimore, Maryland.Donovan was a major participant in the interregional slave trade, building shipments of enslaved people from the Upper South and delivering them to the Deep South where they would be used, for the most part, on cotton and sugar plantations.
Pages in category "History of slavery in Maryland" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. ... List of Maryland slave traders; St. Inigoes ...