Historical Marker

Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:
Brunswick MARC Station, Brunswick, Maryland
( Memorial is on Railroad Square west of Maple Avenue, on the left when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 2003

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.