Uniontown

Historical marker location:

Uniontown, Maryland

( Marker is on Uniontown Road, 0.1 miles Maryland Route 84, on the right when traveling east.)

Patriotic, but Paralyzed. Gettysburg Campaign.

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.