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The Franklin and Armfield house with its neighboring slave pens in 1836. Cash in Market. The subscribers having leased for a term of years the large three story brick house on Duke Street, in the town of Alexandria, D.C. formerly occupied by Gen. Young, we wish to purchase one hundred and fifty likely young negroes of both sexes, between the ...
Isaac Franklin (May 26, 1789 – April 27, 1846) was an American slave trader and plantation owner. Born to wealthy planters in what would become Sumner County, Tennessee, he assisted his brothers in trading slaves and agricultural surplus along the Mississippi River in his youth, before briefly serving in the Tennessee militia during the War of 1812.
John Armfield (1797–1871) was an American slave trader. He was the co-founder of Franklin & Armfield , "the largest slave trading firm" in the United States. [ 1 ] He was also the developer of Beersheba Springs , Tennessee , and a co-founder of Sewanee: The University of the South .
Jourdan Michaux Saunders (1796 – March 19, 1875) was an American domestic slave trader and farmer, noted for his partnership with Franklin & Armfield.Born to a slave-owning family in Caswell County, North Carolina, his father died soon after a move to Smith County, Tennessee, leaving Saunders with a significant inherited estate.
Between the 1820s and the 1830s, the number of slaves transported across state lines increased by 85%, reaching the point where white people forced the migration of nearly thirty thousand enslaved ...
George Kephart (February 7, 1811 – August 26, 1888) was a 19th-century American slave trader, land owner, farmer, and philanthropist. A native of Maryland, he was an agent of the interstate trading firm Franklin & Armfield early in his career, and later occupied, owned, and finally leased out that company's infamous slave jail in Alexandria (originally District of Columbia, after March 13 ...
Rice Carter Ballard (c. 1798 – August 31, 1860) was a 19th-century American slave trader, plantation owner, and cotton merchant. His slave trading partners were Isaac Franklin and John Armfield. [1] After leaving the slave-trading business, Ballard invested his profits in land and enslaved people.
Rutherford's slave trading business was funded in part by Rice C. Ballard, who had once been a partner in the pioneering interstate slave-trading company Franklin & Armfield. According to the history The Ledger and The Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (2021), Ballard invested his wealth with Rutherford even though he himself had ...