German Church

Historical marker location:

Manchester, Maryland

( Marker is on Hanover Pike (Maryland Route 30) 0.2 miles north of Manchester Road (Maryland Route 27), on the left when traveling north.)

1760.

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.