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Historical marker location:

Silver Spring, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Georgia Avenue (Maryland Route 97) and Sligo Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Georgia Avenue.)

Local Institutions. 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.