B&O No. 908

Historical marker location:

901 W Pratt St, Washington Village/Pigtown, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from West Pratt Street east of South Schroeder Street, on the right when traveling east.)

"John T. Collinson".

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.