Enticing Business

Historical marker location:

Silver Spring, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Avenue (U.S. 29) and Silver Spring Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Georgia Avenue.)

Marker installed: 2013

Buy-Appeal through Eye-Appeal. Silver Heritage Georgia Avenue.

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.