August 26, 1814

Historical marker location:

5 High Street, Brookeville, Maryland

( Marker is on High Street (Maryland Route 97) just south of Market Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1964

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.