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John McDonogh (December 29, 1779 – October 26, 1850) was an American entrepreneur whose adult life was spent in south Louisiana and later in Baltimore. He made a fortune in real estate and shipping, and as a slave owner, he supported the American Colonization Society, which organized transportation for freed people of color to Liberia.
Exhibit inside the Slavery Museum at Whitney Plantation Historic District, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Following Robert Cavelier de La Salle establishing the French claim to the territory and the introduction of the name Louisiana, the first settlements in the southernmost portion of Louisiana (New France) were developed at present-day Biloxi (1699), Mobile (1702), Natchitoches ...
The history of African Americans in Baltimore dates back to the 17th century when the first African slaves were being brought to the Province of Maryland. Majority white for most of its history, Baltimore transitioned to having a black majority in the 1970s. [ 2 ]
One of the Maryland Jesuits' institutions, Georgetown College (later known as Georgetown University), also rented slaves. While the school did own a small number of slaves over its early decades, [13] its main relationship with slavery was the leasing of slaves to work on campus, [14] a practice that continued past the 1838 slave sale. [13]
"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Slave traders traveled to farms and small towns to buy enslaved people to bring to market. [2]
Austin Woolfolk (1796 – 1847) was an American slave trader and plantation owner. Among the busiest slave traders in Maryland, he trafficked more than 2,000 enslaved people through the Port of Baltimore to the Port of New Orleans, [1] and became notorious in time for selling Frederick Douglass's aunt, and for assaulting Benjamin Lundy after the latter had criticized him.
Manifest of a coastwise slave shipment made from Baltimore to New Orleans by Hope H. Slatter, on the ship Scotia in September 1843 The first group of 66 out of the 73 souls aboard is organized by height; beginning with Author Goodhand, age 21, 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), ending with Caroline Potts, age nine, 3 ft 11 in (1.19 m); Caroline is the only person with the surname Potts on the manifest
Moses G. Hindes was a bricklayer, brickmaker, and slave trader of Baltimore in the United States. Hindes who was one of the principals in the American slave-trading firm Wilson & Hindes from 1856 until 1861 when interstate slave trading between Baltimore and New Orleans essentially ceased due to the American Civil War.