Phoenix

Historical marker location:

Cockeysville, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Phoenix Road, 1 mile north of Paper Mill Road (Maryland Route 145), on the left when traveling north.)

Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.