Historical Marker

29 West Main Street

Historical marker location:
31 West Main Street, Middletown, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street (U.S. 40 A) and Ifent Drive, on the right when traveling west on West Main 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.