Historical Marker
Oxford - Bellevue Ferry
Historical marker location:
Oxford, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Maryland Route 333 and Strand Road, on the left on State Route 333.)
Marker installed: 1974
November 1683.
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.