Beall-Dawson House

Historical marker location:

142 W Middle Ln, Rockville, Maryland

( Marker is on West Middle Lane just west of North Adams Street, on the left when traveling west.)

Enslavement in Rockville.

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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.