Winslow Forthman Burhans, Sr.

Historical marker location:

527 South Potomac Street, Hagerstown, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from South Potomac Street just north of West Memorial Boulevard, on the left when traveling north.)

1913 - 1990. Political Figure.

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.