Lamar House

Historical marker location:

200 West Main Street, Middletown, Maryland

( Marker is on West Main Street (Alternate U.S. 40) just west of Elm Street, on the left when traveling west.)

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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.