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Slave trade market in Philadelphia. Enslaved Africans arrived in the area that became Philadelphia as early as 1639, brought by European settlers. When the slave trade increased due to a shortage of European workers during the 1750s and 1760s, approximately one to five hundred Africans were sent to Philadelphia each year.
1796 Runaway advertisement for Oney Judge, a slave from George Washington's presidential household in Philadelphia. When the Dutch and Swedes established colonies in the Delaware Valley of what is now Pennsylvania, in North America, they quickly imported enslaved Africans for labor; the Dutch also transported them south from their colony of New Netherland.
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
William Still (October 7, 1819 [1] [2] – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a conductor of the Underground Railroad and was responsible for aiding and assisting at least 649 slaves to freedom. Still was also a businessman, writer, historian and civil rights activist.
Philadelphia, especially its Germantown section, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish slavery, and the Johnson House was one of the key sites of that movement. Between 1770 and 1908, the house was the residence of five generations of the Johnson family.
Jane Johnson (c. 1814-1827 – August 2, 1872) [1] was an African-American slave who gained freedom on July 18, 1855, with her two young sons while in Philadelphia with her slaver and his family. She was aided by William Still and Passmore Williamson , abolitionists of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and its Vigilance Committee .
Florida teen advertises classmates as 'slaves for sale' on Craigslist. Kelsey Weekman. May 1, 2017 at 10:59 AM.
"Great Negro Mart" sign: This card dates to about 1860, this building had been occupied by Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market for most of the 1850s but in 1859 he sold it for US$30,000 (equivalent to $1,049,889 in 2024) to his former partner Byrd Hill [14] (National Museum of African American History and Culture) Slaves Waiting for Sale by ...