Historical Marker
Starr Funeral Home
Historical marker location:
8290 Main Street, Ellicott City, Maryland
( Marker is on Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the right when traveling west.)
Ca. 1887.
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.