1850-1870

Historical marker location:

9 West Memorial Boulevard, Hagerstown, Maryland

( Marker is on West Memorial Boulevard, 0.1 miles west of South Potomac Street (Maryland Route 65), on the right when traveling west.)

The American Civil War Era.

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.