1729 Lancaster Street

Historical marker location:

1729 Lancaster St, Fells Point, Maryland

( Marker is on Lancaster Street just west of South Ann Street, on the left when traveling west.)

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.