Early's Raid on Washington

Historical marker location:

8060 Newell Street, Silver Spring, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Newell Street and Kennett Street, on the right when traveling north on Newell Street.)

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.