Fort Look-Out

Historical marker location:

Riverside, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of East Randall Street and Riverside Avenue, on the right when traveling east on East Randall Street.)

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.