List of District of Columbia slave traders
This is a list of slave traders working in the District of Columbia from 1776 until 1865, including traders operating in Alexandria, Virginia before the establishment of the District in 1800 and after the retrocession in 1847:
- James H. Birch, District of Columbia and Alexandria, Va.[1]
- Samuel J. Dawson, Natchez, Miss.[2] Washington, D.C. and Alabama[3]
- Jilson Dove, Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland[4][5]
- Dyer family, District of Columbia[6]
- Robert W. Fenwick, Washington, D.C.[7]
- Franklin & Armfield, Alexandria[8]
- John S. Hutcherson, Georgetown, D.C.[9]
- George Kephart, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia[10]
- E. P. Legg, District of Columbia[11]
- Thomas Magruder, Washington, D.C.[12]
- Joseph W. Neal, District of Columbia[13][6]
- Thomas Milburn, Washington, D.C.[14]
- William H. Richards, Washington, D.C.[15][8]
- Tench Ringold, Washington, D.C.[16]
- John Edward Robey, Washington, D.C.[17][14]
- Washington Robey, Washington, D.C.[18][19]
- Joseph Semmes, Georgetown, D.C.[20]
- Thomas Williams, Washington, D.C.,[6][21][22] Virginia,[23] and Vidalia, Miss.[24][25]
- Williams H. Williams[25]
- Williams, Washington, D.C.[26]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bancroft (2023), pp. 50–51, 57.
- ^ "NOTICE". The Weekly Democrat. 1828-03-22. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
- ^ "Cash in Market and Negroes Wanted, Samuel J. Dawson". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. 1830-08-12. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "American Papers". Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald. 1832-04-14. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
- ^ Genius of Universal Emancipation. B. Lundy. 1833. p. 128.
- ^ a b c Corrigan, Mary Beth (2001). "Imaginary Cruelties? A History of the Slave Trade in Washington, D.C." Washington History. 13 (2): 4–27. JSTOR 40073372.
- ^ "Look Here!". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. 1831-11-07. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
- ^ a b "Selections: Wipe Out the Nation's Shame". The Liberator. 1862-04-11. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-10-09.
- ^ "Negroes Wanted". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. 1826-06-09. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ^ Schipper, Martin, ed. (2002). A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Papers of the American Slave Trade, Part 1. Rice Ballard Papers, Series C: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries (PDF). Lexis Nexis. pp. vii–viii. ISBN 1-55655-919-4.
- ^ Genius of Universal Emancipation 1830-01-22: Vol 4 Iss 20. Internet Archive. Open Court Publishing Co. 1830-01-22.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family". earlywashingtondc.org. Retrieved 2024-05-11.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 150, 154–155.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
:73was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Jay (1844), p. 39.
- ^ Wilson (2009), p. 65.
- ^ Colby (2024), p. 26.
- ^ "Fontaine H. Pettis". The Liberator. 1834-12-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ "Petition #20483304 Washington County, District of Columbia. September 20, 1833 Race and Slavery Petitions, Digital Library on American Slavery". dlas.uncg.edu. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
- ^ U.S. House District of Columbia Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs (1983). Rhodes Tavern (preservation and Restoration): Hearing and Markup Before the Subcommittee on Government Operations and Metropolitan Affairs of the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H. Res. 532 ... November 30 and December 16, 1982. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 806.
- ^ "Dear Sir: There is here in Washington a Slave jail, or "Negro Pen"..." Portland Press Herald. 1844-10-31. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
- ^ "The Slave Dealer's Flag". The Evening Post. 1844-10-31. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-09-18.
- ^ "Negroes in Jail". Weekly Columbus Enquirer. 1842-08-24. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
- ^ "Negroes for Sale". The Natchez Daily Courier. 1838-12-04. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-08-21.
- ^ a b Pritchett, Jonathan B. (1997). "The Interregional Slave Trade and the Selection of Slaves for the New Orleans Market". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 28 (1): 57–85. doi:10.2307/206166. ISSN 0022-1953. JSTOR 206166.
- ^ Brown, John (1855). Chamerovzow, L. A (ed.). Slave life in Georgia: a narrative of the life, sufferings, and escape of John Brown, a fugitive slave, now in England. London: W. M. Watts. pp. 108–126. hdl:2027/coo.31924032774527. Retrieved 2023-09-05 – via HathiTrust.
Sources
[edit]- Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931]. Slave Trading in the Old South. Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8.
- Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Lewis (December 2008). Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky (Ph.D. thesis). University of Notre Dame. doi:10.7274/pn89d50750n.
- Hedrick, Charles Embury (1927). Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery in the Transmontane Prior to 1850. Nashville, Tennessee: George Peabody College for Teachers.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1853). A key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co. LCCN 02004230. OCLC 317690900. OL 21879838M.
