Baltimore Slave Trade
Although the United States banned the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808, a domestic trade from the Upper South to the emerging cotton-growing regions of the Deep South thrived until the 1860's. Baltimore-based dealers supplied the trade, operating slave pens at the Inner Harbor, on Fell's Point, and across the city, including near this location. Between 1808 and the abolition of slavery in Maryland in 1864, and estimated thirty thousand people were "sold South" from Baltimore.
Marker is at the intersection of East Pratt Street and President Street, on the left when traveling east on East Pratt Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
