Hancock

Historical marker location:

Hancock, Maryland

( Marker is on South Pennsylvania Avenue north of Canal Street, on the left when traveling south.)

A Canal Town Community. History of the Town.

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.