Kennedy M. Fitzgerald

Historical marker location:

213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Mill Street just east of Burns Street, on the left when traveling east.)

(1987-2007).

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.