Gettysburg Campaign

Historical marker location:

11 Liberty Street, Westminster, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Liberty Street (Maryland Route 27) and East Main Street, on the left when traveling south on Liberty Street.)

Invasion & Retreat. Maryland Civil War Trails.

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.