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  2. David Cobb (slave trader) - Wikipedia

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    The Alabama Department of Archives and History holds two bills of sale for people trafficked by Cobb: Cobb sold Primas and Mille in 1807 (or 1801), and bought Claiborn in Huntsville, Alabama Territory, in 1818. [3] There was a letter waiting for Cobb at the Lexington, Kentucky post office in January 1816. [4]

  3. List of Alabama slave traders - Wikipedia

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    Map of Alabama in 1822. This is a list of slave traders working in Alabama from settlement until 1865: Anderson, Alabama [1] Britton Atkins, Blountsville and Montgomery, Ala. [2] David Avery, Alabama [3] Barnard & Howard, Montgomery, Ala. [4] Bates, Virginia and Mobile, Ala. [5] Robert Booth, Richmond and Alabama [6]

  4. History of slavery in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Lexington was a central city in the state for the slave trade. [3] 12 percent of Kentucky's slave owners enslaved 20 or more people, 70 white families enslaved 50 or more people. Fluctuating markets, seasonal needs and widely varying geographical conditions characterized Kentucky slavery. [1]

  5. Alabama’s Legacy Museum shows that the long reach of slavery ...

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    Their idea is that students get only a pretty picture of America — minus its brutal history of slavery, Jim Crow, white supremacy, racism, discrimination and ever-present implicit bias.

  6. History of slavery in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [ 15 ] : 99–100 Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in ...

  7. Sculpture Park in Montgomery will ‘humanize’ the experiences ...

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    The third addition, the sculpture park, is an effort to humanize the experience of the enslaved person living on a plantation. The centerpiece of the park will be a 100-by-40 feet monument to ...

  8. James McMillin (slave trader) - Wikipedia

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    "Celebrated Vendetta" Maysville Daily Public Ledger, March 23, 1903 The deal that resulted in James McMillin's murder was supposedly done in December 1856. [11] In Slave-Trading in the Old South, Frederic Bancroft described the circumstances of McMillin's death, writing that he was "a well-known trader, who for years had ranged over Kentucky searching for slaves for Lexington and Memphis dealers.

  9. Mason Harwell - Wikipedia

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    Mason Harwell (February 14, 1806 – May 7, 1879) was an auctioneer, insurance broker, and a leading, if not the leading, slave trader in antebellum Montgomery, Alabama. [1] According to Slavery in Alabama (1950), "After 1840 Montgomery was the principal market in the state."