Edwin E. Magin

Historical marker location:

500 S Center St, Westminster, Maryland

( Marker is on Farm Museum Road, 0.2 miles south of South Center Street, on the left when traveling south.)

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.