Before 1770

Historical marker location:

527 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, Maryland

( Marker is on South Potomac Street (Maryland Route 65) just north of West Memorial Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.)

Colonial America.

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.